When critics list the best films of 2018, there’s an excellent chance that one of their choices will be 42-years-old. That’s because The Other Side of the Wind, the final film from Citizen Kane director Orson Welles, was shot in 1976 and - through a series of unpredictable circumstances - hasn’t been finished until now.
Orson Welles began his career as an actor and theater director, starring in the iconic superhero radio show The Shadow, and fooling the world into thinking aliens were real with his notorious War of the Worlds broadcast. When he came to Hollywood, with an unprecedented contract that gave him final cut on his own motion pictures (which was unheard of in the 1940s, and still almost never happens), his first motion picture was Citizen Kane, a groundbreaking drama about a mysterious newspaper tycoon which would eventually be hailed as the greatest motion picture ever filmed.
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Orson Welles began his career as an actor and theater director, starring in the iconic superhero radio show The Shadow, and fooling the world into thinking aliens were real with his notorious War of the Worlds broadcast. When he came to Hollywood, with an unprecedented contract that gave him final cut on his own motion pictures (which was unheard of in the 1940s, and still almost never happens), his first motion picture was Citizen Kane, a groundbreaking drama about a mysterious newspaper tycoon which would eventually be hailed as the greatest motion picture ever filmed.
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