"We don't talk about the film," says Huston, biting on a ubiquitous cigar. Maybe The Other Side of the Wind is the film that we never should have talked about.

For those rabid Welles fanatics like me who've been defending his late career for decades, the movie feels like a perfect realization of his vision-for better or worse-in all its audacity, unruly extravagance, and fascinating imperfection.

There are specs of brilliance, imagination, and penetrating moments from John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich that make the film all the more exhilarating. Needless to say, the film is a conundrum.