The Other Side of the Wind

From wikipedia:

The Other Side of the Wind is an unreleased 1972 film directed by Orson Welles and starring John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper and Stéphane Audran. The film featured Huston as an aging arthouse director with a string of commercial flops, who seeks to make one more film laden with sex and violence to revive his flagging career.

Like many of Welles' personally-funded films, the project was filmed and re-edited on and off for several years - work on the script started in the late 1960s, in 1972 Welles said that filming was "96% complete", and by 1976 it was on the brink of completion. Serious financial problems dogged the project, and Welles's use of funds from the brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran came back to haunt him after the Shah was overthrown in 1979. A complex, decades-long legal battle over the ownership of the film ensued, with the original negative remaining in a vault in Paris. By 1998 all legal matters had been resolved and the Showtime cable network had guaranteed end money to complete the film, when a new lawsuit by Welles' daughter Beatrice was filed, causing Showtime to withdraw its funding. As of late 2007, an new agreement had been reached with Showtime, and editing of the film was currently in progress.

So, a lost Welles film is on par with say, a lost Shakespeare script. Check out a leaked clip of the soon-to-be restored film.



Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Web Resource � Blog Archive � Stunning Improvised footage from Orson Welles’ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND!