Peter Bogdanovich, threshing machine

Or fucking David Thomson!

argh! otm. my dislike for him continues to grow.

actually everyone does, come to think of it.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/

Blogdanovich!

Man will never give up his Ascots, will he.

They shall pry them from his cold, dead dewlaps.

The guru has started another blog.

I'm seeing him introduce Citizen Kane in a couple of weeks--just for the thrill of hearing him namedrop "Orson" every other sentence.

i wonder what orson welles' blog would've been called. Roseblog?

Enjoyed him on the Dick Cavett show circa 1971 surrounded by Robert Altman, Mel Brooks, and Frank Capra. And yes, he was wearing his snappy Cary Grant garden party leisure wear.

I have a certain nostalgic fondness for the original 1972 Elaine May-Neil Simon comedy, THE HEARTBREAK KID (available on DVD), which goes beyond the darkly hilarious film itself, because at the time of its making and release I was living with one of the stars, Cybill Shepherd. This warm feeling only increased with the publication of Cybill’s memoirs (Cybill Disobedience), in which there are numerous revelations—-to me, too—-about her various doings during our nine-year relationship (and, of course, before and after).

This fuckin' guy.

This kills me--Bogdanovich in a nutshell:

"As the Duke was walking me back to my car, he took a shortcut, leading me through the sizeable garage..."

I should say that I think The Last Picture Show is a fine film, although I have difficulty connecting it to Bogdanovich (other than as an assemblage of stuff borrowed from his favorite directors...think Stanley Kauffmann said the same thing way back when).

Casting him as a thinly veiled Hugh Hefner on Law and Order was kind of amazing.

That episode made me laugh so much.

it's weird seeing tokyo rosemary on ILX

these days

hi, adamrl

I was down to see him introduce Citizen Kane this afternoon, with a Q & A afterwards. He's very funny at times, and every bit the blowhard I expected from all the interview footage I've seen over the years. He's got a real hate-on for Kael (not surprising), and also for Johnny Guitar (surprising--always thought that was sacrosanct among auteurists). He claims that Kael never gave him a good review after an Esquire piece he wrote in response to "Raising Kane," implying cause-and-effect, which conveniently ignores that a) Kael's review of The Last Picture Show was perfunctorily positive in a manner that almost dismissed it, and b) the later films she dumped on, most every other good critic did likewise. (Putting aside Sarris, a friend of Bogdanovich's.) He says that he expects he will finish editing Welles' The Other Side of the Wind before he checks out for "the big screening room in the sky."

I watched the first half-hour of They All Laughed the other night, and I didn't.

people hate this guy? how come?

come on this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQc-wtHAlw

I just watched Paper Moon and it's really great. The O'Neil's work the scenes so beautifully, she's really charming, he hits that sweet spot between pushy and drippy, and there's so much beauty in the shot selection and cinematography. Beautifully efficient 1st Act too - principle characters introduced, character's established, the impetus keeping them together defined, all in 10 minutes. Sure the ending's a bit corny, but come on, it's a screwball road movie, a bit of tack never hurt anyone.

And I lolled mega-hard at Tatum smoking. Was everyone just cool with that in 1973?

should I go see Saint Jack w/ Gazzara tonight? 2001 DVD seems to be OOP.

^This might v well be one of PB's best 2 or 3 films, he even manages a decent supporting turn. Gazzara's character is def a slightly bouncier cousin to his Chinese Bookie guy (just as desperate and fuct underneath tho). Great DP work on Singapore locations by Robby Muller.

At Long Last Love to be released as a non-limited edition blu by Twilight Time/Screen Archives in April.

Bogdanovich and the secret afterlife of At Long Last Love

On a somewhat related note, I screened Targets the other night for the first time and liked it. Didn't know beforehand that he himself was a main supporting player, and was amused at how they got an extended Nicholson cameo into the film. Lots of cool circa-'67 LA location photography too.

The Dissolve has a bunch of Targets stuff this week, incl Bogdo interview:

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/99-peter-bogdanovich-on-targets-history-and-unfortuna/

Been meaning to mention this (taken from the intro from the linked interview):

As it turned out, it was harder to connect with Bogdanovich than we’d expected, but for the best possible reason: He’s in the middle of shooting a new movie in New York, Squirrels To The Nuts, a comedy produced by Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Jennifer Aniston, Will Forte, and many, many more bright comic actors.

wtf

Imagine that, getting a veteran dierector to work with Owen W, Aniston and some ppl I can't quite place.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/interview-peter-bogdanovich-talks-starring-in-cold-turkey-putting-together-his-new-film-as-a-director-and-the-endless-frustration-of-orson-welles-the-other-side-of-the-wind-20131119?page=1#blogPostHeaderPanel

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-2-clips-from-peter-bogdanovichs-screwball-shes-funny-that-way-20140828

either "a hysterical screwball fantasia that openly steals from Lubitsch, Hawks, Capra and Sturges and wants to be caught with its fingers in the till" or "so much like a B-grade Woody Allen picture that you might well assume it is a conscious homage specifically to him".

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-venice-2014-peter-bogdanovichs-shes-funny-that-way

The last sentence could have been written in 1973, with Lubitsch, Hawks, Capra, and Sturges replacing Woody.

uh What's Up Doc was all Hawks, Paper Moon rather more integrated

substitute "or" for "and"

have any of you guys seen They All Laughed? Tarantino and Wes Anderson go crazy for it so make of that what you will.

Is there a good threadreader workaround for nonusers for this Twitter thread by the guy who got it on TCM?

i promised Peter in a phone call around Christmas time in 2021, before he passed away heartrendingly and unexpectedly a few weeks later, that i'd help him clear the rights on They All Laughed, (his once Lost Masterpiece) so it could show on cable and streaming, something that pic.twitter.com/00rBBiurN9

— bill teck (@billteck) September 15, 2024

I saw it as a Netflix Red Envelope release in early '19 as I mentioned above, so it was available, however briefly.

Would you class it as a Lost Masterpiece?

FWIW, it gets screened in 35mm around NYC once in a while - I caught one at BAM a long time ago and Bogdanovich did the Q&A. If you love Bogdanovich, you should absolutely see it, it's almost a nakedly personal film to the point where the Q&A kind of felt like TMI. (IIRC, he kept saying soberly how he was "in love" with like every woman in the cast - not in a frivolous or joking way, it was a little cringey for me.)

It's interesting, and I think it has its merits, but I can't agree with its boosters that it's a great film, much less his masterpiece. Targets and The Last Picture Show paired with Texasville are still my favorite works from Bogdanovich.

It's a goofy film, often not in a good way.

I saw it as a Netflix Red Envelope release in early '19 as I mentioned above, so it was available, however briefly.

Warner Bros. put it out on DVD with a commentary and a conversation featurette featuring PB & Wes Anderson back in the mid-'00s. Copies are still findable. I too rented it from Netflix maybe 10 years ago and had an ordeal just trying to watch the DVD: The first copy was scratched to shit and started skipping a couple minutes into the picture; the second arrived cracked; and finally the third one played ok.

I'm not liking this era where "Lost Film"=Not Available On Blu/Streaming.

Yeah

It's on MAX.

Reminds me that it was pretty the only thing on HBO during some visit home so I watched it over and over until I got into.

Probably posted the same upthread already

https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/peter-bogdanovich-they-all-laughed-streaming-1235049834/

The color version of Nickelodeon is back up on Prime.

how have people endured Paper Moon for half a century

mostly by ignoring it I think

Elaborate plz, Mr. Soto.

I tried once 20 years ago, turned it off. I tried this afternoon, turned it off.

Oh come on, Tatum O'Neal's performance alone!

Saw it on the big screen recently with a buncha zoomers dressed to the nines in 70's garb, unexpected but delightful.

Shouldn't they have worn 30s garb?

Wouldn't go as far as switching it off but I didn't really get it

Shouldn't they have worn 30s garb?

Who am I to tell the youth what to do?

The main thing to get is this uncomfortable truth: while children smoking is a bad thing in real life, on the silver screen it looks even cooler than adults doing it.

I've been meaning to rewatch it. I saw it maybe seven or eight years ago in a packed Sunday morning screening with a lot of kids, and I remember it playing like gangbusters.

psichiatra di psichiatri

Tatum is a large part of the problem. I'm recoiling from the film's effort to make me adore her cunning.

saw the one-day rerelease of Paper Moon today. I’d tried once on TV and made it five minutes: the big screen and a (small, polite, multiplex matinee) audience made it click. It’s best when being a comedy, and could easily trim to a sub-90-minute sharper, sillier version. But the languorous scenes often feel like the point of writer Bogdanovich’s interest (let’s feel like an older style of storytelling, even if that was a minority at the actual time), and provides a showcase for probably-other-writer Platt’s production design.

I’ve never been convinced by O’Neal père in my brief, glancing encounters. But the mix of contrasts and comparisons between him and Tatum in this make his character rich and believable despite his limitations as an actor, and give her an authenticity roughed up by her precociousness. And her scenes with PJ Johnson as Imogene show that Tatum’s distinctiveness isn’t just nepo enthusiasm or an existing rapport with her father — they very convincingly have a relationship of equals (plus/despite the age difference) on a range of levels distinct from the adults’ all-lies-to-each-other mode

Heh, Paul Nelson liked They All Laughed so much that he owned three VHS copies of it.

Also I recently finally saw Paper Moon and What's Up, Doc? properly on a big screen at MoMI and enjoyed them both.

Nickelodeon BluRay: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=38069