The resulting work is as every bit as brilliant and chaotic and exasperating as you would expect, garrulous and madly disputatious, with plenty of tragicomic lechery and crassly dated wisecracks about Native Americans and gays. Now, under the auspices of Netflix, a 122-minute film has been retrieved from more than 100 hours of raw footage by editor Bob Murawski in association with the project’s executive producers, Peter Bogdanovich and Beatrice Welles, Orson’s daughter.
Perhaps leaving it unfinished was Welles’s ultimate, secret tribute to the central truth of The Other Side of the Wind: how the agony and the ecstasy of creative art lies in the process not the product, and how the finished work will never measure up to the ideal version in your head. This is Welles’s experimental found-footage-style autobiographical movie about an unfinished movie which was ironically unfinished in Welles’s own lifetime, abandoned in financial chaos in the mid-1970s. : narrative power, tautly controlled and responsive prose, an imagination that never loses touch with the reality of things as they are.A new film by Orson Welles? Even in a vintage year like Venice 2018, that has to be something special. "All of Ursula Le Guin's strengths are abundantly present. Meredith Tax, The Nation (28 January 2002) As far as gender goes, these books seem to me a true symbolic picture of where we are now, with no untainted source of male power, no mature authoritative leadership of any kind, caught midway in our evolution as social beings." "All the patterns, clues, and oppositions set up over thirty years in five other books, come to fruition and are worked out in The Other Wind. This is not what 70-year-old writers of genre fantasy are supposed to do, but then, there aren't many writers around like Le Guin." "In her new novel, however, she reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself.
“The Earthsea saga, begun in 1968 as a young adults' series, has evolved into one of Le Guin's, and modern science fiction's, signature achievements.” The magic of Earthsea is primal the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." Real mythmaking, done by a master of the craft.
"Le Guin understands magic and dragons better than anyone, and her writing only gets better with each new book.
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