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Titolo: "The Other Side of the Wind" forse sara' completato

Emozione! Leggo su un newsgroup francese la notiziona che vi riporto qui
sotto: forse forse qualcuno riesce a concludere e distribuire uno dei
tanti film incompiuti di Orson Welles - il mitico "The Other Side of the
Wind" di cui si favoleggia dagli anni Settanta e in cui compaiono come
attori anche John Huston e Peter Bogdanovich (che dovrebbe essere il
responsabile dell'edizione finale del materiale).
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http://www.nysun.com/article/51609
 
Deal Near on a Lost Welles
By HOWARD SWAINS
Special to the Sun
April 2, 2007
One of American cinema's lost masterpieces could finally reach theaters
next year after a deal nears completion to edit and release Orson
Welles's final, uncompleted film, "The Other Side of the Wind,"
according to the director and actor Peter Bogdanovich.
"The deal is 99.9% finished," Mr. Bogdanovich, a friend and biographer
of Welles, said in an interview last month. Mr. Bogdanovich repeated his
claims at an appearance at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando on
Friday, according to a report on a Web site dedicated to Welles's work.
The unedited negatives of the film have sat in a Paris vault for more
than 30 years, unseen by anyone other than Welles, who died in 1985.
Mr. Bogdanovich, who also acted in "The Other Side of the Wind," said
negotiations with a "well-known cable network," which have lasted seven
years, have ended with an agreement to complete the film. While Mr.
Bogdanovich refused to name the channel, Showtime has long been
associated with the project. A spokesman for Showtime said it was "still
in negotiations" over the movie.
Welles spent at least five years during the 1970s working on "The Other
Side of the Wind," which stars John Huston as an aging filmmaker
directing what turns out to be his final movie. Huston's character dies
in a car crash before he finishes his film, and Welles's story unfolds
in flashback after the death of the central character, a device Welles
previously employed in " Citizen Kane," considered by many to be the
greatest film ever made.
Before he died, Welles claimed that the shooting of "The Other Side of
the Wind" was almost complete, and the filmmaker is known to have edited
between 40 minutes and 50 minutes of the work, excerpts of which have
occasionally been screened at Welles retrospectives.
But the negatives were entombed in France against Welles's wishes after
he accepted funding for the movie from an Iranian financier, Mehdi
Bousheri, the brother-in-law of the former Shah. Bousheri invested a
reported $1 million in the film during its drawn-out production, but the
negatives became trapped in the vault of his Paris-based film company in
the legal fallout of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Rumors of
embezzlement of funding by a Spanish producer also surround the movie.
Welles managed to smuggle a working copy of his film out of Paris, but
was denied access to the original negatives for the last 10 years of his
life.
Subsequent attempts to edit and release "The Other Side of the Wind"
have been scuppered at various junctures either by the Welles estate,
managed by Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles, or Bousheri, who was keen
to guarantee a return on his investment. Bousheri died last year,
essentially releasing the negatives, but Ms. Welles has previously
issued legal threats to block the movie's completion.
Mr. Bogdanovich said that the new deal, which will be completed within
the next two months, satisfies all parties.
"We've been trying to get it done for 22 years," he said, referring to
the length of time since Welles died of a heart attack.
"The Other Side of the Wind" was expected to be Welles's most ambitious
movie, utilizing innovative shooting and editing techniques new to
filmmaking in the early 1970s. Although he denied any autobiographical
resonance, it also appears to be Welles's most personal film, with
commentators who have read the screenplay suggesting that it contains a
series of thinly-veiled caricatures of people who angered the director
during his career.
Huston's character — the swaggering, white-bearded filmmaker named Jake
Hannaford — bears a distinct resemblance to Ernest Hemingway, while
Pauline Kael, the film critic, is the probable inspiration for a
supercilious character named Juliette Rich, according to Chuck Berg,
writing in the 2003 "Encyclopedia of Orson Welles."
The film also includes graphic sex scenes, some featuring Welles's
long-term partner Oja Kodar, who also co-wrote the movie.
The centerpiece of Welles's film is a lavish 70th birthday party thrown
in honor of Hannaford, during which the fictional director screens
excerpts from his movie, also called "The Other Side of the Wind." Among
the guests at the party are television documentary crews, journalists,
and film students, who pick up the camera and shoot behind-the-scenes
footage of the celebrations, creating multiple layers of narrative and
at least one movie within a movie.
"The word didn't exist at the time, but it's what we now call a
'mockumentary,'" Mr. Bogdanovich said. Mr. Bogdanovich's Los Angeles
home was borrowed by Welles to shoot the party sequences.
Welles's footage is believed to be purposefully rough, representing
these multiple "directors." He also recorded a number of overlapping
strands of conversation, and, according to Mr Bogdanovich, had intended
a number of trick shots that would have stretched available technology
to the limit.
"It would have been difficult in Orson's day," Mr. Bogdanovich said of
one scene in which Hannaford's film was to be seen on a drive-in screen
as the sun sets behind it. "But we can probably do it on computers now."
Mr. Bogdanovich said he will work in a supervisory capacity on the
editing of the film and is considering adding a further framing device
to the story, depicting the lengthy struggle to get "The Other Side of
the Wind" to the screen. The credits will, however, read "Directed by
Orson Welles," according to Mr. Bogdanovich.
Frank Marshall, a line producer on the original production, could also
be involved in the new release, according to Mr. Bogdanovich.
 Welles's production, which began shooting in 1970, was consistently
dogged by financial problems, often causing the director to suspend work
on the movie while he took on lucrative acting or voice-over work. The
struggle for finances eventually led to Bousheri and the resulting
impasse.
Complicated legal disputes over ownership of the film have surrounded
its production. Ms. Welles, Bousheri, and Kodar have all made claims to
part or all of the copyright. The latter two reportedly agreed to a deal
with Showtime in the late 1990s, but Ms. Welles subsequently issued a
legal challenge.
The original Showtime deal fell through as a result of the legal
wrangling, but Kodar, Bogdanovich, and Gary Graver, the cinematographer
on "The Other Side of the Wind," all continued their attempts to finish
the film. Graver died in November 2006, but had previously been to Paris
to inspect the negatives, and confirmed they were intact.
In 2002, Graver told the Express of London that Welles had completed the
shooting and sound recording of the movie, and all that remained was the
editing. The movie "could be considered one of Welles's great films,"
Graver told the newspaper. "Its release could make people re-evaluate
Welles's legacy."
Lawrence French, a journalist who has written extensively on Welles and
has read the screenplay, agreed that the film is a masterpiece. But he
also cautioned that editing such a complex picture will present unique
challenges to Mr. Bogdanovich's team.
"No one has ever managed to duplicate Orson's unique editing style," Mr.
French said. "It defies description. He does things you don't realize
he's doing. Sometimes it isn't even logical."
Provided the deal is finalized, Mr. Bogdanovich expects editing to take
at least a year, meaning the movie would not reach theaters until late
2008, at the earliest.
If it finally does reach the screen, Mr. Bogdanovich will have fulfilled
a personal request made to him by Welles during a break in the shooting
of "The Other Side of the Wind."
"Orson said to me, 'If anything happens to me, you will make sure you
finish it, won't you?'" Mr. Bogdanovich recalled. "It was, of course, a
compliment and also a terrible moment. He pressed me to give some
assurance, and it's been hanging over us for 22 years now."
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