Winston T. Boogie
Senior HTF Member
May 6th 2015 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles and to any Welles fan it could not be more amazing news that his last film The Other Side of the Wind is set to be completed and have its first public screening on that day. This means we may actually see this film make an appearance on blu-ray by the end of the year...fingers crossed and all that.
One of my personal "blu-ray Holy Grails" and the perfect way to celebrate Orson's 100th I have not seen this mentioned here although the news that a deal had been brokered finally to finish the film emerged last October.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/movies/hollywood-ending-near-for-orson-welles-last-film.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
"The producers say they aim to have it ready for a screening in time for May 6, the 100th anniversary of Welles’s birth, and to promote its distribution at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif., next month."
“We will set up a cutting room and Peter Bogdanovich and I will assemble the film,” Mr. Marshall said. “We have notes from Orson Welles. We have scenes that weren’t quite finished, and we need to add music. We will get it done. The good news is that it won’t take so long because of all of the technology today.”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz7r33_the-other-side-of-the-wind-entretien-avec-francoise-widhoff_shortfilms
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/orson-welles-final-film-2015-release-1201341048/
This looks like it could be the release of the year...
One of my personal "blu-ray Holy Grails" and the perfect way to celebrate Orson's 100th I have not seen this mentioned here although the news that a deal had been brokered finally to finish the film emerged last October.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/movies/hollywood-ending-near-for-orson-welles-last-film.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
"The producers say they aim to have it ready for a screening in time for May 6, the 100th anniversary of Welles’s birth, and to promote its distribution at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif., next month."
“We will set up a cutting room and Peter Bogdanovich and I will assemble the film,” Mr. Marshall said. “We have notes from Orson Welles. We have scenes that weren’t quite finished, and we need to add music. We will get it done. The good news is that it won’t take so long because of all of the technology today.”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz7r33_the-other-side-of-the-wind-entretien-avec-francoise-widhoff_shortfilms
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/orson-welles-final-film-2015-release-1201341048/
This looks like it could be the release of the year...