'The Other Side of the Wind' review: Orson Welles' last first film
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Nov 01, 2018
4 minutes
Each film by Orson Welles feels like a first film, wrestled into shape by an artist working by instinct as well as craft. The two-hour version now available of Welles' last first film, "The Other Side of the Wind," exists as ... well, it exists, which is miracle enough.
Shot between 1970 and 1976, Welles spent a total of 14 thwarted years trying to finish the thing. The project grew out of an idea Welles had been mulling since the 1950s, about an Ernest Hemingway-like writer, drunk on his own machismo, chasing a bullfighter around Spain, while sycophants
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