They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

Synopsis

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.



Cast: Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Howard Grossman, Danny Huston, Rich Little, Frank Marshall, Cybill Shepherd, Beatrice Welles, Orson Welles

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, which takes its name from a prophetic comment Welles made to Peter Bogdanovich, centers on Welles' return to the U.S. in the early 1970s to shoot his ill-fated Hollywood comeback film. The documentary concludes with his death in October 1985. "Welles is the protagonist of my documentary," Neville said. "[The Other Side of the Wind] is so autobiographical, even though he said it was not."

The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2018. It was released on November 2, 2018, by Netflix.

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Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 98 min.