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The Other Side of the Wind

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Directed by Orson Welles
Produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza
Written by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar
With: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Robert Random, Lilli Palmer, Edmond O'Brien, Mercedes McCambridge, Cameron Mitchell, Paul Stewart, Gregory Sierra, Tonio Selwart, John Carroll, Stafford Repp, Geoffrey Land, Henry Jaglom, Paul Mazursky, Dennis Hopper, Curtis Harrington, Claude Chabrol, Dan Tobin, Stéphane Audran, George Jessel, Peter Jason, Joseph McBride, Pat McMahon, Cathy Lucas, Angelo Rossitto, Alan Grossman, Robert Aiken, Gene Clark, Larry Jackson, Richard Wilson, Gary Graver, Frank Marshall, Michael Ferris, Eric Sherman, Felipe Herba, Paul Hunt, Bill Weaver, Mark Turnbull, Benny Rubin, Cassie Yates, Lillah Michaeltorena, Teresa Nersesyan, William Katt, Richard Waltzer, Louis Race, Ron Charles, Kevin Cloud Brechner, Glenn Jacobson, Rich Little, Cameron Crowe, Todd McCarthy, Markene Kruse Smith, June A. Flora, Anna Thea Bogdanovich, Frank Fiore, Sally Bernstein, Leslie Moonves, Jack Boyce, Avril Thorne, and the voice of Orson Welles
Cinematography: Gary Graver
Editing: Bob Murawski and Orson Welles
Music: Michel Legrand
Runtime: 122 min
Release Date: 02 November 2018
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Welles’ final film finally finished—more or less how he wanted. The result is certainly fascinating, but I suspect the mischievous master would have prefered his last major work remain an incomplete chapter of his elusive, contradictory legacy.