Additionally, it claims that the producer's company had Karp's 2015 book also reproduces contemporary (May 2, 1974) correspondence from one of the film's creditors Jim Hines to With the film's mounting financial problems after the March 1974 disappearance of Gómez and the simultaneous disappearance of many of the film's funds, Welles had to abandon the Arizona shoot in April 1974 before he could complete all principal photography.

Some films are hard to judge, especially something like this, that may be very close to what Welles intended, but never finished and never really seemed to be really satisfied with (see also the documentary about Welles from 2018, which is really good). Boushehri died in 2006, but his heirs similarly accepted that the best hope of any return on Boushehri's investment was for the film to finally be released.

At this moment, Hannaford slaps Riche in drunken outrage, while a drunken Billy Boyle mounts an impassioned defense of the director.

We see some of it in the director's projection room, some of it at a drive-in when that breaks down. Welles' use of funds from Mehdi Boushehri, the brother-in-law of the However, continuing legal complications in the Welles estate and a lawsuit by Welles' daughter, Although the original negative of the film long remained in a Paris vault, two Over the years, there were repeated attempts to clear the remaining legal obstacles to the film's completion, and to obtain the necessary finance.

The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Oja Kodar. Not the kind of film I'd want to make; I've invented a style for him.

A drunken Hannaford asks him to get in the sports car with him, but Dale does not.

People are writing a book about him—different books.

Or even pretentious to some extend. The 1998 deal struck with Boushehri led to funding being put up by the Showtime network, until the lawsuit from Beatrice Welles later that year stalled matters once more.Peter Bogdanovich announced in 2004 that he planned to restore the film and release it soon thereafter. At the time of Hannaford's party, this film (titled A screening of some incomprehensible parts of Hannaford's unfinished experimental film takes place, in order to attract "end money" from studio boss Max David.

Documentaries ... still pictures, films, tapes.

That same year, Sanford Horowitz and financier John Nicholas launched a company called "Project Welles The Other Side LLC" and the website www.projectwelles.com to attract additional capital and complete negotiations with Kodar and Beatrice Welles. Oja Kodar made her first public comments about Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind since signing the deal with Netflix that allowed its long-awaited completion to begin.

Hannaford himself is absent, and a loyal member of his entourage, the former child star Billy Boyle, makes an inept attempt to describe what the film is about. I'm going to use several voices to tell the story.

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind, in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie. He's a tough movie director who has killed three or four extras on every picture ... [but is] full of charm.

If that rings true to you or not, it doesn't mean you are right or wrong, one way or the other. The first two major cast members to pass away were Stafford Repp in November 1974 (before principal photography had even been completed), and Norman Foster in July 1976 (only six months after filming wrapped).

Accordingly, in 1974 Welles moved into Bogdanovich's Beverly Hills mansion, where he lived on and off for the next few years, and where he intermittently shot more party scenes, until principal photography finally wrapped in January 1976.Welles estimated that the editing of the film in a distinctive and experimental style would take approximately one year of full-time work (which was how long he had spent on the experimental, rapidly cut editing of his previous completed film, A change of management at the Iranian production company in 1975 resulted in tensions between Welles and the backers.

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

It's about 50% of the whole movie. It's the old man's attempt to do a kind of counterculture film, in a surrealist, dreamlike style.

1974 production block, alleged embezzlement, and second major pause in the filmingFurther attempts to raise funds and complete the film, 1975–76Legal difficulties, and efforts to complete the film1974 production block, alleged embezzlement, and second major pause in the filmingFurther attempts to raise funds and complete the film, 1975–76Legal difficulties, and efforts to complete the filmGiorgio Gossetti (ed. Despite Welles' death in 1985, filming was completed and several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film.

She watches the final scene, and drives off as Hannaford's closing narration says: "As a member of the cast, film historian Joseph McBride saw the The film was included on dozens of Best Films of 2018 lists, including Sight & Sound, Film Comment, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair.