Discussed in this essay:

The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles. Netflix, 2018. 122 minutes.

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, directed by Morgan Neville. Netflix, 2018. 98 minutes. 

The one thing everyone knows about Orson Welles is that he began his Hollywood career at twenty-five with cinema’s biggest big bang—a one-off considered by some to be the greatest film the Dream Factory ever produced. Now, seventy-seven years after Citizen Kane and more than two decades after his death, Welles, who was born in 1915 and died in 1985, ends…