Apparently, the legal issues are almost resolved and this will be airing on Showtime very soon. Here's a ridiculously long and detailed interview with Peter Bogdanovich (of course) about the film:
Inherit the Wind
Talking with Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride
About The Other Side of the Wind
Life with the restless ghost of Orson Welles' last movie
By Damien Love
In 1970, after two decades of European exile broken only by his brief return in 1957-58 to make Touch of Evil  one of the many films a Hollywood studio took away from him  Orson Welles came home to Hollywood to make his last feature, The Other Side of the Wind. Funding the production largely from his own pocket and shooting entirely outside the system, the fragmented filming finally wrapped in 1976. 30 years on, the movie, infamously, remains unedited and unreleased, bound up by bad luck, personal feuds and byzantine legal tangles that saw the negatives actually physically locked out of reach in a vault in Paris for decades.1
In the intervening years, as scratched and smuggled clips2 and script extracts have leaked out,3 Welles' final film's legend has grown.4 Shot on the run around L.A. and in Arizona, with a reportedly dazzling central performance from John Huston, the movie tells a story that strangely parallels its own making: the doomed tale of an embattled, aging, old-school director, trying to make a film to compete with the sex-and-symbolism flicks of the young guns of the New Hollywood of the early 1970s. A movie about making movies, it has become the Holy Grail of Welles' career, his Rosebud  perhaps the slyest, most mystifyingly revealing statement he ever committed to celluloid.
Welles spent the last decade of his life fighting to have his film released. Twenty-one years after his death, that fight goes on. Rumours about The Other Side of the Wind's completion have come and gone in abundance over the years. But, while it pays to have a pinch of salt handy, it could be that we are now getting close to finally seeing the damned thing. The latest whispers are that the Showtime channel, which has been involved in the attempts at having Welles' film completed and released over the past decade,5 will soon be making an announcement. Keep watching the skies.6
In the meantime, in the absence of the movie, all we have to go on are the tantalising accounts of those who were involved in its protracted making. Two of the most significant of these are Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride.
As well as being Welles' friend, biographer, confidante and collaborator during the last two decades of his life, Bogdanovich took time out from his prestigious directing career to co-star alongside Huston in The Other Side of the Wind. McBride, a self-confessed “film-buff nerd