Nov 8th
The Other Side of the Wind** (15)
(Curzon Colchester)
(US/Fra/Iran 1976 - released 2018)

A drunken veteran film director loses his leading man in the making of his pretentious modern film The Other Side of the Wind and is also pestered by film critics and admirers of his work.
A much anticipated work which is admittedly slightly hellish to sit through: a deliberately permissive satire by Welles full of zest and energy (as his reaction to the Easy Rider generation), and plenty of self-indulgence too. Huston is drunk for most of the time, and most of the film is a bad party waiting to wind down, but some of the incidental performances are moving.

Written by: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar.
Producers: Orson Welles, Dominique Antoine, Frank Marshall, Filip Jan Rymsza, Larry Jackson, Neil Canton.
Director: Orson Welles.
Starring: John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Bob Random, Lilli Palmer, Susan Strasberg, Edmond O'Brien, Paul Stewart, Cameron Mitchell, Mercedes McCambridge, Tonio Selwart, Paul Mazursky, Dennis Hopper, Norman Foster, Geoffrey Land.
Photography: Gary Graver.
Music: Michel Legrand.
Editing: Bob Murawski, Orson Welles.