It's Taken Forty-Plus Years To Get Released, But The Wait For The Other Side of the Wind Was Worth It!

This is my 1,000th movie review for Land of the Nerds! Over the course of about four-and-a-half years, I've watched and written about a ton of movies and I'm grateful to each and every one of you readers for supporting my cinematic pursuits, which include a most unique motion picture to serve as the subject of my 1,000th review!

You take the good with the bad. Yes, Netflix may finance annual Adam Sandler comedies, one of which features the sight of David Spade physically beating Paula Patton while shouting about what a good guy he is, but at least they've done good for the world of art by using their seemingly endless oceans of money to complete Orson Welles final film The Other Side of the Wind. This project started filming in the early 1970's and after a six-year-long filming process began an extensive post-production session that Orson Welles didn't finish before his passing in October 1985. In the more than three decades since then, the footage for this film has been mired in endless legal controversy that prevented it from being finished up.

L'avventura Wrung Character-Centric Drama Out Of A "Gone Girl" Before It Was Cool!

Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #18
Placement On Sight & Sound Top 50 Movies List: #21

Each of our individual identities gets heavily informed by the people around us. When we're impressionable children, the behavior and characteristics displayed by our parents to be inherited by the children they raise while the de facto traits needed to be one of the "popular" people in High School is likely going to be imitated by those looking to obtain some sort of higher social status. This is one of those universal psychological quirks of us as a species that show easily susceptible we can be in order to gain acceptance from our fellow peers. For the two individuals at the center of L'avventura, the entire dynamic they share is upended when a woman they're both dearly close to goes missing under mysterious circumstances.