The Other Side of the Wind
A dead Hollywood titan becomes the subject of a fractured cinematic autopsy as unfinished art, old grudges, and changing filmmaking ideals collide.
Overview
A legendary director's final days unfold in a chaotic blend of reality and fiction, revealing the price of fame.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Mild
- sardonic
- irreverent
- combative
- cinephile night
- film study
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the completed film as a daring, rewarding late-career work and a vivid meditation on changing cinematic and sexual attitudes, while finding the film-within-the-film more divisive.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Hannaford's latest movie is intercut with documentary footage and commentary surrounding its planned release.
Cameras follow Hannaford in the days before his death, assembling competing impressions of his career and enemies.
The film stages friction between an old-guard director and younger filmmakers amid changing late-1960s and early-1970s media culture.
The plot foregrounds Hannaford's destroyed careers, accumulated enemies, and domineering status in Hollywood.
Films like The Other Side of the Wind, and why
8½
experimental hollywood satire, self-reflexive filmmaking, and an aging artist confronting cultural change
The Player
mockumentary form, fractured media perspective, and caustic examination of celebrity culture
Day for Night
film-within-a-film structure, combative artistic personalities, and late-career creative crisis
A Prairie Home Companion
blackly comic show-business satire focused on power, ego, and changing artistic values
Movie Details
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Release Date
- 2018-11-02
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (242)
Cast
- John Huston
- Oja Kodar
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Susan Strasberg
- Norman Foster
- Robert Random
- Lilli Palmer
- Edmond O'Brien
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Cameron Mitchell
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Other Side of the Wind about?
- A dead Hollywood titan becomes the subject of a fractured cinematic autopsy as unfinished art, old grudges, and changing filmmaking ideals collide.
- What is The Other Side of the Wind like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Other Side of the Wind as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is The Other Side of the Wind violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Other Side of the Wind as mild.
- What did critics think of The Other Side of the Wind?
- Critics broadly regard the completed film as a daring, rewarding late-career work and a vivid meditation on changing cinematic and sexual attitudes, while finding the film-within-the-film more divisive.
- Which films are like The Other Side of the Wind?
- Films with a similar feel include 8½, The Player, Day for Night, and A Prairie Home Companion.
- How long is The Other Side of the Wind?
- The Other Side of the Wind runs 122 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Other Side of the Wind?
- In United States, The Other Side of the Wind streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
