They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

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Series/Themes: A Tribute to Orson Welles, Special Guests

Genre: Documentaries

Film Year: 2018

Locations: USA

Film Length: 98 min.

Languages: English

Director: Morgan Neville.

Featuring: Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Steve Ecclesine, Oja Kodar, Frank Marshall, Joseph McBride.

Orson Welles, acclaimed director of Citizen Kane, struggled much of his film career to obtain the same level of success as his breakout film. In one last attempt to get it right, a decade before his death Welles began production on what would become a 48-year long process of making his final film, The Other Side of the Wind. Using a mix of never-before-seen archival behind-the-scenes footage and contemporary interviews with key figures in the later years of Welles’ life, this documentary chronicles Welles’ maddening and tragic final chapter. Introduction by Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies)

Saturday, November 3
6:30 PM
Culbreth Theatre
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Orson Welles, acclaimed director of Citizen Kane, struggled much of his film career to obtain the same level of success as his breakout film. In one last attempt to get it right, a decade before his death Welles began production on what would become a 48-year long process of making his final film, The Other Side of the Wind. Using a mix of never-before-seen archival behind-the-scenes footage and contemporary interviews with key figures in the later years of Welles’ life, this documentary chronicles Welles’ maddening and tragic final chapter. Introduction by Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies)

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