Hyped up with the hilariously modern boast of being “FROM … THE MIND THAT BROUGHT YOU CITIZEN KANE,” the trailer for Orson Welles’ final film is just as weirdly incongruous as there being a “new” film from him at all in 2018. New is in quotes here because Welles actually shot this movie, The Other Side of the Wind, across the first half of the ’70s, one of the director’s many unfinished projects. But this one was completed enough that, in recent years, efforts from the likes of Frank Marshall and Peter Bogdanovich (who also co-stars) managed to get the film edited together and cleared of some legal hurdles preventing its release. Jack Huston stars as an aging old-Hollywood director (not exactly a reach) struggling to make a comeback with a flashy new picture. The film is set to premiere Friday at the Venice International Film Festival before hitting Netflix in November.
Just a shame Welles himself never got to see The Other Side of the Wind, and will never know how much the title sounds like the cinema option no one wants to see in an episode of Seinfeld.
