de masters of cinema:

On Friday 30 March, at the Florida Film Festival, Peter Bogdanovich announced that the final paperwork regarding the completion (that is, completion-hypothesis) of Orson Welles' late film The Other Side of the Wind has been signed, with US premium-cable network Showtime presumably taking part in the financing. A Wellesnet source was told by Bogdanovich that the first step in the process, naturally enough, will be taking inventory of all of the footage shot — but never fully assembled — by Welles from the late '60s, on through the '70s.

Godspeed to all involved in this endeavor which, taking into account an editing schema that anyone acquainted with Welles' work must understand remains, to a certain extent, truly inimitable, will ideally provide the world with a close approximation of the great film Welles had intended. C. K.