
Orson Welles's final movie, The Other Side of the Wind, started filming in 1970 but by the time of his death in 1985 had not been released. It was finally released by Netflix in 2018. This documentary details the making of the movie and the problems Welles had in completing and releasing it.... (Full plot summary below)
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Orson Welles's final movie, The Other Side of the Wind, started filming in 1970 but by the time of his death in 1985 had not been released. It was finally released by Netflix in 2018. This documentary details the making of the movie and the problems Welles had in completing and releasing it.
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| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMore narratively straightforward (but also masterfully edited in F for Fake style), the documentary takes its title from a Welles quote about the fickle hypocrisy of the movie business and about his other favorite subject: himself. And that quote couldn’t have been more spot-on for a man who was most appreciated most only when it was too late. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriWith this documentary, Morgan Neville has made a movie about Orson Welles that would have transfixed the great master himself. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt was beset by legal woes and held in French vaults and labs for almost 40 years. Both Neville’s film and “The Other Side of the Wind” are being released simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix. I would advise seeing Welles’s film first. It’s more rewarding and less confusing that way. |
| TheWrapRobert AbeleThe prime takeaway is of an irascibly charming, wounded and forceful genius both having the time of his life and sensing the gathering dusk. |
| The PlaylistKimber MyersThere’s been no shortage of study on Welles, but They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead offers a new understanding of the elusive, cunning filmmaker with a verve the man himself would have admired. |
| Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganThey'll Love Me When I'm Dead gives a rich, flavorful account of a self-destructive genius on one of his last creative benders. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenMorgan Neville understands Orson Welles's art to pivot on an ongoing quest to bring about self-destruction so as to contrive to transcend it. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyGenius, this movie believes, is real, whether it’s failed or successful. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenFocusing on the last 15 years in the life of mercurial actor-director Orson Welles, the bulk of which was spent trying to complete his passion project, “The Other Side of the Wind,” the impeccably assembled production employs Neville’s virtuoso touch to provocative effect. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeIt says more about the man behind it than any documentary to date, cut together with such a supreme understanding and care for its subject that director Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) seems half-justified in suggesting that his project may as well be the missing film. |