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Xenocide - 2018-08-31

Brain:...so you see, Pinkie, after we've shot the movie, we'll withhold it from the public for forty years! At the end of that time, people will be so excited to see it, they'll never notice the subliminal message I implanted in it, which will brainwash them into making me ruler of the world!

Pinkie: Egad, Brain, brilliant! No, no, wait...what if by then our unsustainable capitalist system is on the verge of collapse and as a result the only movies that make money anymore are escapist fantasies because people desperately need a distraction from the relentless feeling of impending doom? In that case your movie will only appeal to a small niche group of film nerds who all lack the political influence needed to appoint you ruler of anything. Here, I wrote a song about it! OHHHHH, BREAD BREAD BREAD! BREAD AND CIRCUSES! ROME IS ON FIRE AND-

Brain: Enough! You're being absurd, Pinkie. The 21st century can bring only prosperity!

Pinkie: Also, mice have a lifespan of only about three years so you're going to be nothing but dust in a hole by the time that movie comes out, Brain.

Brain:.....

Pinkie: NARF!


Mister Yuck - 2018-08-31

Narf.


Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2018-08-31

The twist: Orson Welles faked his death, had himself cryogenically frozen until 2017, and will soon star in Netflix's remake of Big Ears & Noodle Noggin.


fedex - 2018-08-31

I always hear Gandalf whenever Huston speaks


Maggot Brain - 2018-08-31

Fully expecting this to be a mess with half the movie missing.


Xenocide - 2018-09-01

Even if it is, the accompanying making-of documentary will make the whole thing worth it.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2018-08-31

In 1975, Orson Welles was given a lifetime achievement award by the American Film Institute, and two clips from THIS MOVIE were shown, and my 17 year old self was thrilled. The images were precise, cool, eerie. To my 17 year self it wasn't Citizen Kane. It was the same audacity from 1941 but with 35 year years of NEW. If I could put my thoughts from so long ago into words, they might be "He's still 25!"

Welles died in 1985, ten years later, so I imagine principal photography was completed. With a competent editor who cares about the material, what emerges will probably be a movie. And there are.aspects to this story, the autobiography of a failed artist, that resonate now more than when I was seventeen.

I think its going to be something to see.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2018-08-31

I don't know what the odds are that this will turn out to be a lost masterpiece and the absurdly long-delayed comeback of a great artist who tragically peaked before he turned 30. Maybe the odds are long.

But MAYBE IT WILL BE A MASTERPIECE. Wouldn't that be amazing? His whole sad story would change dramatically. Wouldn't that be something that we can all find comfort in, as we shamble through failure, and toward death? Or is that just me?

The alternative is that The Other Side of the Wind is just another dreary seventies movie from Orson Welles, a great artist who tragically peaked before he turned 30. In other words, nothing changes.

So there's nothing to be afraid of, and plenty to be excited about. So I'm going to go ahead and be excited, even if it seems naive. If it turns out to be disappointing, It'll probably take more than one viewing for me to admit it, but I'll get there.

But there are reasons to be hopeful. The reason why this was never released is that it was such a relentlessly independent film he ran out of funding for post-production. I'm sure he could have made some kind of a deal to get it released, but he apparently refused to make a deal. And if he was betting on posterity, he had ten years to leave notes for those who would take over.


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2018-08-31

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/side-wind-review-1137565


Old_Zircon - 2018-09-01

POLL: who will get The Day the Clown Cried rights when the time comes?

Seems like Amazon Prime material to me.


boner - 2018-09-04

A streamdumpster exclusive.


boner - 2018-09-02

Sounds very 70s if nothing else.

https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/venice-film-fe stival-2018-a-star-is-born-the-other-side-of-the-wind


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