Archive of films Other Side of the Wind / The Other Side of the Wind

USA / France / Iran
2018, 122 min

Section: Out of the Past
Year: 2019

After years spent in Europe, Jake Hannaford returns to Hollywood in order to resurrect his directing career in style. Surrounded by friends and enemies, he holds an unforgettable party – one that Orson Welles uses to take on Hollywood, European film, and his own legacy.

Synopsis

After many years away, passionate hunter and drunk J. J. “Jake” Hannaford (John Huston) returns to Hollywood in order to relaunch his once famous directing career. At a glitzy party, surrounded by faithful collaborators, rivals and sycophants, Hannaford screens his unfinished movie, in which a silent pair of lovers travels across a photogenic and empty American landscape. While this film within a film parodies such works as Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, the shots of the party and its scurrying guests refer back to the death of the studio system and to a new Hollywood that is fascinated by innovations from abroad. Left unfinished and now reconstructed, Welles’ picture was to mark his grand return…

Nikola Paggio

About the director

Orson Welles (b. 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin – 1985, Los Angeles). Selected filmography: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Othello (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (Le Procès, 1962), Falstaff (1965), Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992), The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

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About the film

Color, Black & White, DCP

Section:	Out of the Past

Director:	Orson Welles
Screenplay:	Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
Dir. of Photography:	Gary Graver
Music:	Michel Legrand
Editor:	Orson Welles, Bob Murawski
Producer:	Frank Marshall, Filip Jan Rymsza
Production:	Royal Road Entertainment
Cast:	John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster
Sales:	Netflix

Guests

Filip Jan Rymsza

Film Director, Producer