Tagged: John Huston

alexander miller / monday movie / movies

June 19, 2023

Monday Movie: The Other Side of the Wind, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Other Side of the Wind originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. It all seemed so strange; the long, sought after, thought-to-be-lost Orson Welles film The Other...

2022 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / tcm fest 2022

April 27, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Three, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Three William Dieterle’s (again!) Portrait of Jennie has the distinction of being quite possibly the weirdest-ass movie I’ve ever seen at a TCM Classic Film Festival. Granted, the bar’s not set all that high...

monday movie / movies / scott nye

April 25, 2022

Monday Movie: The Other Side of the Wind, by Scott Nye

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. If Da Vinci was right, that art is never finished, only abandoned, it’s little wonder we consider Orson Welles to be...

monday movie / movies / tyler smith

June 1, 2020

Monday Movie: Beat the Devil, by Tyler Smith

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. American film noir owes a great deal to John Huston. His adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon set a new standard in the genre. He also went...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

April 23, 2020

Criterion Prediction #239: The Other Side of the Wind, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Other Side of the Wind Year: 2018 Director: Orson Welles Cast: John Huston, Oja Kodor, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Edmund O’Brien, Cameron Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Dennis Hopper Synopsis: After shooting his latest film abroad in Europe, elusive director...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

October 31, 2018

The Other Side of the Wind: It’s All Blowing Back Around, by Scott Nye

If Da Vinci was right, that art is never finished, only abandoned, it’s little wonder we consider Orson Welles to be perhaps the greatest filmmaker of all time. He firmly completed films count among masterpieces – Citizen Kane, F for...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

October 13, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Movie Challenge: Chinatown, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I first saw Chinatown in...