― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Nah, he'd been holding up that "will pose as a Welles expert for larges houses and scads of money" long before that, and to great effect. I hate this guy almost as much as I hate John Landis.
― Ain't That Peculiar (kenan), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
he actually is kind of an expert, and he speaks well, so it makes sense that he should appear on so many documentaries and commentary tracks. unfortunately there's usually an even more interesting expert that's been passed over for old pete.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ain't That Peculiar (kenan), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
+ eddie izzard is in it and how can one not like eddie izzard, eddie izzard is a fucking genius.
― anthony, Saturday, 25 September 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Or fucking David Thomson!
argh! otm. my dislike for him continues to grow.
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
actually everyone does, come to think of it.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 29 December 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/
Blogdanovich!
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Man will never give up his Ascots, will he.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
They shall pry them from his cold, dead dewlaps.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The guru has started another blog.
― redd cool card-pitt (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm seeing him introduce Citizen Kane in a couple of weeks--just for the thrill of hearing him namedrop "Orson" every other sentence.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder what orson welles' blog would've been called. Roseblog?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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..."
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 October 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 October 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Casting him as a thinly veiled Hugh Hefner on Law and Order was kind of amazing.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 October 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That episode made me laugh so much.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Thursday, 7 October 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it's weird seeing tokyo rosemary on ILX
― Tweeker Bongdanovich (admrl), Thursday, 7 October 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
these days
hi, adamrl
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 October 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched the first half-hour of They All Laughed the other night, and I didn't.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
people hate this guy? how come?
come on this is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQc-wtHAlw
― piscesx, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
should I go see Saint Jack w/ Gazzara tonight? 2001 DVD seems to be OOP.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
^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.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
At Long Last Love to be released as a non-limited edition blu by Twilight Time/Screen Archives in April.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
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/
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Now on the calendar with a seven-screening run from March 28 to April 5!
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
Brody: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/squirrels-to-the-nuts-reviewed-the-directors-cut-of-peter-bogdanovichs-last-feature
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Link to discussion of his passing on the appropriate thread: Rolling Obituary Thread 2022
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
And oh yeah, friend who has had to watch the director's cut a few times told me it really wasn't that great as well.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Now friend is telling me I should watch Dorothy Stratten’s other film, Galaxina.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
But Josefa hated it, so I’m torn.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Reading Ron Brownstein's Rock Me on the Water (long subtitle...), about L.A. in 1974. Brownstein probably epitomizes everything people hate about CNN, and he's not a film guy, so I'm surprised to say the film part of the book is good.
"Bogdanovich calculated that from 1952 to 1971, he saw 'something like 6,000' movies."
20 years, 300 films a year, 6 a week...pretty impressive without even home video. There are people who post in the "last X movies" thread who see even more, I think. Not me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
Watched The Last Picture Show and Klute, both from 1971, in the last couple of days. They are so different
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
I find Klute harder going these days. Pakula often reaches a point where he's half in love with the easeful shadows of his cinematographer.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
They were the second feature films by both directors. The Last Picture Show had a better story and better cinematography and Klute was more atmospheric, less straightforward
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
(The best film from 1971 though is still McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
Watched Daisy Miller in conjunction with the Tarantino book and--expecting nothing--thought it was pretty good, especially the last 20 minutes or so. (As Tarantino points out, it starts out like Bogdanovich wants to show he can transform official literature into screwball comedy, and the rapid-fire dialogue feels pushy.) I don't remember Barry Brown at all from that era, and it indeed looks like he was more of a TV guy.
Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Charles Grodin, Brown, Robert De Niro, Bogdanovich--Cybill Shepherd sure drove men around the bend in the first half of the '70s. (Add me to the list.)
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
Hadn't finished the Tarantino chapter when I posted that last night...Got my answer: he committed suicide in 1978. Tarantino draws a nice analogy between Brown and the character of Daisy.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
I recently watched They All Laughed - another Tarantino recommendation - and could not fucking believe how bad it was. And I'm generally a fan of Bogdanovich. But that film does not work in any way. Colleen Camp's character in it has to be one of the most irritating creations in cinema history.
Sometimes I really just don't understand Tarantino's taste.
(New Years Resolution: try to be more positive about things)
The Tarantino book has a lot of interesting insights in it (as well as lots to disagree with).
― Josefa, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
I saw it ages ago and didn't get much out of it.
I still have three or four chapters to go--and have to watch Escape from Alcatraz, Hardcore, and The Funhouse (I've seen the first two)--but I'm glad I took the time to read it. Introduced me to at least two good films, the two John Flynns, and got me to watch Daisy Miller, which I never would have otherwise. The writing's okay when he's not going out of his way to be crude.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
Think I mentioned upthread that I watched IThey All Laughed over and over on HBO whilst at home during a college break so I grew to like it for some reason even though yeah, it seems like a trifle. Maybe I should watch again and get back to you. Maybe I already tried that too/zingproblems
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
It doesn't improve on its opening sequence
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Can't find it. Where did I start watching it last time, I wonder? Maybe I will try to watch Saint Jack instead.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
It used to be on YouTube, I linked it up thread (link now dead).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
RIght. That's what I figured, thanks.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
Still thinking about Saint Jack. Ben Gazarra is such a weirdo, I think. Maybe I am biased now based on seeing him once at a Cassavettes screening.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
This is on YouTube, Colleen Camp promoting the film on the radio in Cincinnati, and everything goes horribly wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgNjnSzM3Eg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 January 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
^ Haha, well done
I found Saint Jack quite good. Just the backdrop of it alone is interesting, and then Gazzara and Denholm Elliott made an entertainingly odd couple.
― Josefa, Friday, 6 January 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
One of these days I'm gonna get around to At Long Last Love
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
I watched a Netflix-red-envelope DVD copy about a decade ago.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
The past is a foreign country iirc
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:30 (one year ago) link
haven't seen Daisy Miller, At Long Last Love, Saint Jack, or They All Laughed
but his 3 films in consecutive years from 1971 to 1973 - The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?, and Paper Moon - are all-time great
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 January 2023 00:58 (one year ago) link
Eileen Brennan and Cloris Leachman from Picture Show are both good in Daisy Miller.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 January 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
I was going to add that the kid's kind of annoying, but first I looked him up, and you know who it is?--James McMurtry, who I've never heard but recognized the name right away.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 January 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
^^Larry's son, and future Alt-Country kingpin. Wrote one of the best W-era protest songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szclr2caFG8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 January 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
Always felt part of why guy directors (Tarantino, Wes Anderson etc.) love They All Laughed is that conceptually it's kind of a platonic ideal of a film a dude would love to make: a passion project with all your buddies on board, the most of the leading ladies have been involved with you romantically, and everybody's on great terms treating NYC as a playground for grown-ups.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
Makes sense.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 7 January 2023 03:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/films/29965-targets
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
I've seen it twice and found it a little overrated, although in meeting Corman's (?) conditions--get Karloff in there--pretty resourceful. Thought that weird animated thing from a few years ago Tower, was a better treatment of Charles Whitman.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
Unfortunately obscure YT of the day: not streaming, not available in the U.S. since the excellent DVD (still not hard to get), here is Peter Bogdanovich's personal favorite of all his films, THEY ALL LAUGHED, w/ John Ritter, Audrey Hepburn & Ben Gazzara. https://t.co/r29M4upwY9 pic.twitter.com/HHMLWwVib1— James Kenney (@jfkenney) June 12, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 12 June 2023 18:41 (nine months ago) link
love that movie, think of it a lot
― serving aunt (stevie), Monday, 12 June 2023 19:50 (nine months ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/films/27533-the-last-picture-show
Bundled with two cuts of Texasville
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:17 (seven months ago) link
Kino Lorber is putting out a Blu of Daisy Miller in May.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2024 23:06 (two weeks ago) link