Review of The Other Side of the Wind (2018) by Wiscojoe — 28 Nov 2018
One of the best, freshest, and most ambitious films of 2018 was made in the 1970's by a director most famous for his work in the 1940's. And it was released on Netflix.
Appropriately, this audacious and dazzling spectacle serves as a bracing eulogy for Hollywood, skewering the myopic commercialism and vain pretensions of an aging industry/artform desperately seeking relevance and control amidst a rapidly changing and chaotic cultural landscape. In a year when formulaic Disney franchises and Lady Gaga star-vehicle remakes are being cynically pushed as "state of the art," it took Orson Welles to crash the party and give us one final reminder of what cinema can be if we're willing to dig deep enough. Though I suppose such criticism is just the other side of the wind.
This review of The Other Side of the Wind (2018) was written by Wiscojoe on 28 November 2018.
The Other Side of the Wind has generally received positive reviews.
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