Comments on: Venice Film Festival: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Review https://www.uclfilmsociety.co.uk/blog/venice-film-festival-the-other-side-of-the-wind-review/ The home of film at UCL Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.2 By: Daniel Webster https://www.uclfilmsociety.co.uk/blog/venice-film-festival-the-other-side-of-the-wind-review/#comment-188 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:18:59 +0000 http://www.uclfilmsociety.co.uk/?p=16164#comment-188 The Other Side of the Wind’s alleged Antonioni parody is itself worthy of parody; it is both far too long, obnoxiously pretentious and punishingly unfunny.

Just imagine—Welles spent most of 1970-73 shooting the pseudo-Antonioni stuff alone! (In the end, the footage doesn’t even successfully imitate or suggest Antonioni’s style; as David Bordwell pointed out, Welles’s parody more closely resembles a 1940s trance film.) What a waste of three years! No wonder Welles had difficulty securing financing. That’s not a satire; that’s bizarre, obsessive, Mark David Chapman-like behaviour. If Welles had some things to get off his chest regarding Antonioni then he should have just paid a shrink to listen to him ramble endlessly instead.

On the other hand, Woody Allen parodied Antonioni in a segment from Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex—and he did it in less than ten minutes. Woody’s film also has the added benefit of actually being funny.

]]> By: Wilfredo Cogar https://www.uclfilmsociety.co.uk/blog/venice-film-festival-the-other-side-of-the-wind-review/#comment-186 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:29:28 +0000 http://www.uclfilmsociety.co.uk/?p=16164#comment-186 Gotta show some love to one of the biggest and fastest-growing performing film festivals.

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