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Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp (2016, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250092345
ISBN-139781250092342
eBay Product ID (ePID)217105677

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrson Welles's Last Movie
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicFilm / General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorJosh Karp
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A dynamic account of the film's making and eventual undoing."-- The New Yorker "Supremely entertaining ...[and]... an early contender for this year's best book about Hollywood."-- Hollywood Reporter "Fascinating...an in-depth account. [A] wonderful book." -- The Wall Street Journal "Meticulously researched."-- Washington Post "Excellent...this tale of the ultimate movie gone wrong could make for a pretty wonderful movie." - Entertainment Weekly "Karp applies enthusiastic scholarship, with vivid narrative writing and just the right touch of can-you-believe-this-stuff? marvel." - New York Times Book Review "Propulsive..." - New York Magazine "A unique and compelling book." --Winnipeg Free Press, "A dynamic account of the film's making and eventual undoing."-- The New Yorker "Supremely entertaining ...[and]... an early contender for this year's best book about Hollywood."-- Hollywood Reporter "Fascinating...an in-depth account. [A] wonderful book." -- The Wall Street Journal "Meticulously researched."-- Washington Post "Excellent...this tale of the ultimate movie gone wrong could make for a pretty wonderful movie." - Entertainment Weekly "Karp applies enthusiastic scholarship, with vivid narrative writing and just the right touch of can-you-believe-this-stuff? marvel." - New York Times Book Review "Propulsive..." - New York Magazine, Excellent... this tale of the ultimate movie gone wrong could make for a pretty wonderful movie. - Entertainment Weekly "Karp applies enthusiastic scholarship, with vivid narrative writing and just the right touch of can-you-believe-this-stuff? marvel." - New York Times Book Review "Propulsive... " - New York Magazine
Dewey Decimal791.43/72
SynopsisCome Along... with Orson Welles as he returns to Hollywood in Summer 1970, to make an innovative comeback movie, The Other Side of the Wind, about a legendary director who wants to make an innovative comeback movie.Watch... Welles attempt to create a Citizen Kane-like masterpiece that will restore his career.See... Welles at his most Wellesian: clever, crazed; masterful, maniacal; kind, cruel; enlightened, enraged; in command and out of control.Costarring John Huston... the hard-drinking, cigar-smoking adventurer and filmmaker who portrays Jake Hannaford, the hard-drinking, cigar-smoking adventurer and filmmaker at the centre of the film. Running Time: A two-hour movie... about a single day... that was supposed to shoot in eight weeks... but took six years to complete... and remains unreleased forty years later.Tied up for years in convoluted negotiations and complicated legal wrangling, the partially edited film has been seen by only a handful of people. Some believe it's a lost masterpiece; others find it completely unfathomable., Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind --the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles's Last Movie , the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville's Netflix Original Documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead . 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 wasn't 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 six years during his lifetime--only to be finally completed more than thirty years after his death by The Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich, who narrates the film, and released by Netflix. Orson Welles's Last Movie 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 Iran's brother-in-law, and based on a script that Welles rewrote every night for years, the film was a final attempt to one-up his own best work. It's a production best encompassed by its star--the celebrated director of The Maltese Falcon , John Huston--who described the making of the film as "an adventure shared by desperate men that finally came to nothing."
LC Classification NumberPN1997.O755K37 2016