It is the stuff of movie industry legend: the director of the best film ever made leaves behind an unfinished movie destined never to be seen \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n
Orson Welles shot \u201cThe Other Side of the Wind\u201d in the early 1970s but gave up on it, leaving behind 100 hours of footage when he died in 1985.<\/p>\n
Five decades on from its conception, after years of financial and legal wrangling, the film has been completed, a gift to movie buffs who will probably spend the next 50 years decoding it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Other Side of the Wind\u201d, which The Hollywood Reporter called \u201cthe Holy Grail for zealous film buffs, the long-awaited bookend for \u2018Citizen Kane\u2019,\u201d is art imitating life imitating art: itself the story of an unfinished film left behind by a great director and reconstructed after his death.<\/p>\n
John Huston \u2013 a famous director in real life \u2013 plays Jake Hannaford who, hours before his death in a car crash, shows his unfinished movie to guests at his 70th birthday party.<\/p>\n
That film-within-a-film is self-consciously arty, with plenty of female nudity, reminiscent of late 1960s movies such as Michelangelo Antonioni\u2019s \u201cBlow Up\u201d or some of Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s films of the time.<\/p>\n