What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Director by Joseph McBride (University of Kentucky Press, 2022) is an expanded version of a book that originally appeared in 2006 at a time when any released version of The Other Side of the Wind (which was finally released in 2018) resembled Man of La Mancha’s identifiable song “To Dream the Impossible Dream.” Fortunately, this dream with its resonances to the director’s still unfinished Don Quixote project proved possible. In future the author of this study may document the finished versions of other impossible dreams that still await realization.
