{"id":12928,"date":"2019-01-20T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2019-01-18T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:34:47","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018-orson-welles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12928","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love to spend years following rumors of the recreation of the lost masterpiece by an all-time great filmmaker, only for the thing to finally appear direct-to-video, then watch it in fragments over a week of late nights because I keep falling asleep. I watched the previously released scenes of this in the early days<\/a> of the movie blog, never thinking there’d be a feature, and here we are, not quite knowing what to put in quote marks (the “complete” feature “by” Welles). Rosenbaum approves, so who am I to argue?<\/p>\n

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Stills, narration, and the line “that was long before cellphone cameras” mar the opening minutes, then hammy P-Bog becomes a main character, and the movie’s in trouble. It recovers easily – a party film with a magnetic John Huston as the Wellesian center, artists and hangers-on all around, cutting all over the place, and then the scenes of Huston’s never-to-be-completed film (this is an extremely self-aware movie – even Hammy P-Bog appears to be playing “hammy” “p-bog”), a miniature, fragmented work inside the work, which is both a beautiful art film and a pretentious parody of a beautiful art film, problematically starring an always-nude Oja Kodar, who in fact cowrote this film, making it knowingly, self-parodically problematic, I guess. Playfully homoerotic dialogue, apparently documentary sections, and all the colored lights making this more Suspiria<\/a><\/em>-like than the Suspiria<\/em> remake<\/a>. The whole project and its implications fill your brain up all the way. Besides P-Bog there are a few overdone performances – I’m thinking of the film critic (Susan Strasberg) and Zimmy The Southern Gentleman (Cameron Mitchell) – but on first viewing it seemed 15% tiresome, 85% wonderful.<\/p>\n

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\nThey’ll Love Me When I’m Dead<\/em> (2018, Morgan Neville)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember this being fun… let’s see, my notes say “uses every bit of Welles footage they could find to place in dialogue with interviewees” and “ends with Why Can’t I Touch It, wow.” I should watch the making-of and the new Mark Cousins doc then rewatch the feature, but I also got things going on besides Orson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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