A Final Cut for Orson (2018)

Original title

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Directed by

Ryan Suffern

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

38 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary short follows the effort to finish Orson Welles's unfinished film. It shows the challenges of recovering and completing the movie decades later.

behind-the-scenesinformativereflectivemeasuredprocess-orientednostalgicfocused

What happens

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making is a 2018 American documentary short, directed by Ryan Suffern, revolving around the completion of The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles. It offers a glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing what Welles had intended to be his Hollywood comeback film in the 1970s. The documentary short and The Other Side of the Wind were produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza. A Final Cut for Orson premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018. It was released on November 2, 2018 by Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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