Following his hit Mister Rogers documentary, director Morgan Neville examines Orson Welles' long-lost final film
It would be hard to think of two cultural figures more different from each other than Mister Rogers and Orson Welles. But if you drew a Venn diagram of the kindhearted children's television host and the pioneering but ultimately tragic director of "Citizen Kane," in the middle you'd find documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville.
This summer, the 51-year-old Neville had a $22-million sleeper hit at the box office with his documentary about Rogers, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Now the filmmaker - who won an Oscar in 2014 for his film about background singers, "20 Feet From Stardom" - is back with "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead," which recounts the strange and twisty story behind Welles' long-lost final film, "The Other Side of the Wind."
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