Oja Kodar was one of Orson Welles’s closest collaborators toward the end of his career, having cowritten several screenplays and starred in his movies. On November 20, she makes a rare New York appearance to discuss their fascinating partnership and introduce the Munich Filmmuseum’s reconstruction of two legendary—and legendarily unseen—Welles projects: The Other Side of the Wind, for which he ended up editing only a few sequences, and a compilation of test scenes he shot for The Dreamers, a planned adaptation of an Isak Dinesen short story. The program opens with two extended trailers that Welles edited in 1975 in the hope of a Hollywood comeback, but never showed: his trailer for The Deep, newly restored by the Munich Filmmuseum, and his trailer for F for Fake, newly reconstructed with additional outtakes. Reconstruction by the Munich Filmmuseum; courtesy of Oja Kodar. Program approx. 100 min.
The Unknown Orson Welles: Scenes from The Other Side of the Wind (1970–76) and The Dreamers (1982)
Friday, November 20, 2015, 6:30 p.m. MoMA
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Friday, November 20, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
Introduced Stefan Droessler, Director, Munich Filmmuseum
MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
- This film accompanies To Save and Project: The 13th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.
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