It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast, devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias.

Tasha Robinson.

Genevieve Kosky cannot be with us this episode because of rights issues related to the Iranian Revolution.

Every week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're cheating a little, as we're technically tackling two new films,

but they're also two old films, sort of, and they're both two lost films seeing the light of

day, although one remains a little more lost than the other. It's confusing. Tasha, can you help

untangle this? I can try. In our first episode, we'll be looking

at Orson Wells, the other side of the wind, a film he worked on from 1970 through 1976, but

ultimately had to leave unfinished. Why did it take so long? Why did he leave it unfinished?

And why are we seeing it now? And on Netflix, of all places. We will get into that.

But the short answer is that making movies is always hard, and some Netflix, of all places. We will get into that. But the short answer is that

making movies is always hard, and some films are harder to make than others. And some are disastrous,

as Sandy Tan discovered the hard way. As a movie-mad teenager in Singapore, Tan set out to direct

and star in a surreal road movie about a serial killer. And she did, but then she lost the entire

movie through no fault of her own. Her new film Shirkers is a documentary about that experience. We'll get into that story next week, but it's worth noting that even more than most movies, it's worth going to Shirkers unspoiled. And right now, it's just a click away on Netflix. It's going to be an unusual couple of episodes addressing a couple of unusual movies. This week we'll talk about Wells' The Other Side of the Wind, a film completed years after his death, and designed to feel

fractured even if he had been able to see it through. Then next week we'll discuss shirkers.

The film Tan made 25 years after her original shirkers fell through. Stay with us. We'll be right

back. I can't afford.

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