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The European-influenced sophisticate Welles meets the hippie cowboy Hopper in Beverly Hills in November 1970. Hopper smokes a chain and drinks gin and tonic, filmed by several 16mm cameras. Welles is never seen, but his famous sonorous voice gives him a godlike presence.
An intimate and revelatory 1970 conversation between two film giants, Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the massive success of Easy Rider (1969), and Orson Welles, ever the iconoclast and an offscreen interviewer of probing authority.
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- Documentary
- Orson Welles
- 2020-09-18
Jul 15, 2021 · The extensive black and white footage shot with two 16mm cameras was meant not merely for Hopper’s cameo in The Other Side of the Wind, but, according to Beatrice Welles, for use in a never-produced, and never publicly discussed, documentary by her father on Hopper.
Luckily, no one has to invent it. The encounter was filmed on Welles’s command in 1970 while immersed in the completion of The Other Side of the Wind, a film that would never see the light of the day when the director was alive. It was finally completed in 2018.
Sep 8, 2020 · A conversation between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper, filmed in 1970 for 'The Other Side of the Wind,' has been digitally restored and shaped into a stand-alone feature, 'Hopper/Welles,'...
Sep 9, 2020 · The extensive black and white footage shot with two 16mm cameras in November 1970 was meant not merely for Hopper’s cameo in The Other Side of the Wind, but, according to Beatrice Welles, for use in a never-produced, and never publicly discussed, documentary by her father on Hopper.
Sep 8, 2020 · The meeting was shot on black and white 16mm by Welles’s long-serving collaborator Gary Graver (credited as director on the clapperboard glimpsed throughout) during the making of Other Side.
