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Watch a 45-minute, career-spanning interview with the late Christopher Lee:
Filmmaker Magazine‘s Peter Rinaldi goes behind the crowdfunding campaign of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind:
The good news is that Welles cut 40 minutes of the film and left editing notes and marked-up scripts, so recently hired editor Affonso Gonçalves (Beasts of the Southern Wild, True Detective) has more than a sense of what he wanted. The bad news, of course, is that Welles, who really made his movies in the editing room, is gone. “Frank Marshall and I have worked together since he was a child and I was almost a child, so we get along very well,” Bogdanovich says. “We’ve done six or seven pictures together and never had a problem. We’re both going to decide what’s the best version. Then Oja has to see it too.” What about when decisions have to be made and there are no notes to lead the way? “Frank was there for a lot of the shooting and I was around,” says Bogdanovich. “Sometimes when Orson didn’t cut a sequence, he nevertheless picked dailies. For example, I looked at the takes Orson had picked for a sequence between John Huston and me. What he did was, he picked them and strung them together — maybe three takes of the same line, back to back. So that narrowed it down rather swiftly. In one scene, he had saved two takes of me, because I was very good in the beginning of the first one and very good at the end of the second one. In other words he’d use the first half of the first one, cut to John, then use the second half of the other take. It was very clear to me what he wanted to do.”
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn visit the Criterion Collection and discuss Godard, Antonioni, and more
Duncan Jones shares his six favorite documentaries with Nonfics, including Exit Through the Gift Shop and Senna:
“Another driven personality (pardon the pun). Beautifully put together film that gives you a real insight into how men fall in love with achievements. What is life for? Who are we trying to impress? Is success a ‘goal’ …or a price?”
Watch director Bill Pohlad break down a scene from Love & Mercy: