10 Movie Documentaries Better Than The Actual Movie
1. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018 finally saw the release of the late Orson Welles' "final" film, The Other Side of the Wind, which he began shooting in 1970 and which was finally put through the post-production process after Netflix stumped up the required dough.
Though the film was certainly a deeply satisfying decades-long culmination for Welles fans, it was in fact outdone by the companion documentary Netflix commissioned alongside it, the aptly titled They'll Love Me When I'm Dead.
The doc is largely centered on Welles and his attempts to get The Other Side of the Wind made, painting a picture of an ambitious genius like no other, yet one who found himself frequently falling foul of pesky studios and financiers.
But beyond lending crucial context to Welles and his final, recently completed project, the documentary serves as a far more coherent and illuminating human drama than the attached feature, which while fascinating in its own way only skirts on the verges of coherence.