The Other Side of the Wind
Director: Orson Welles
Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix
Opening: November 2
ARRIVING DECADES TOO LATE AND right on time, the final assemblage of Orson Welles’s legendary incomplete incompletable last film is a work as sharp as a slap, as bracing as a martini tossed to the face. Perhaps no unfinished film since Eisenstein’s has been the subject of more writing and speculation, but here are the basic details: on and off between 1970 and 1976, Welles and a rotating cast and crew—working at the Southwestern Studio in Carefree, Arizona; the Beverly Hills home of one of the film’s stars, Peter Bogdanovich; a drive-in theater in Reseda; and other sundry locales—shot the raw material of the movie. Most of it
