In the summer of 1970 legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasnt autobiographical.The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day; and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took twelve years and remains unreleased and largely unseen. Orson Welless Last Movie by Josh Karp is a fast-paced; behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre; hilarious and remarkable making of what has been called "the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen." Funded by the Shah of Irans brother-in-law; and based on a script that Welles rewrote every night for years; a final attempt to one-up his own best-work. Its almost impossible to tell if art is imitating life or vice versa in the film. Its a production best encompassed by its star; John Huston; who described the making of the film as "an adventure shared by desperate men that finally came to nothing."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Brilliantly projects the intimacy of new mediumsBy Phyllis LambertBrilliant! A conceptual engagement with architecture and art now expanding this nexus into new ways of shaping experience. For Lavin on Lavin this "intellected criticism" is concerned with "How things separate and combine; whether as apparently different as art forms or nations; how they get reformatted as they flow through global currents of money and politics" and how they manage the specificities of their material ontologies while at the same time fold easily into virtual and digital mediums; constitutes an urgent set of issues for contemporary cultural theory."1 of 6 people found the following review helpful. too expensiveBy ABI didnt found it interesting.its a little pink book full of opinions.Im looking for more; just saying its not worth it.1 of 14 people found the following review helpful. "Image-architecture affords an especially useful model of experience."By ROROTOKOThis book is on the Rorotoko list. Professor Lavins interview on "Kissing Architecture" ran as the Rorotoko Cover Feature on August 10; 2011 (and can be read in the Rorotoko archive).
