Peter Bogdanovich, threshing machine

I too used to find her delivery offputting, but the podcast is consistently great, and this latest round her best yet. I really enjoyed it, too, as a corrective to the Bogdanovich podcast, which was a good listen, but while the presenter let Bogdanovich have enough rope a couple of times to reveal his innate pomposity and how he'd profited from an era that celebrated and indulged its white male creative heroes, it was clear throughout that it would err on the side of hagiography. Longworth's series went much deeper, never risked seeming like a puff-piece, and also did a great job of rescuing Platt from Bogdanovich's shadow and celebrating her as an artist in her own right, while also acknowledging her own feet of clay and exploring her as a well-rounded person, with her own flaws and motivating damage.

It's an accomplished work of biography, which the Bogdanovich podcast isn't.

innate pomposity

I believe you are talking about his ascotsity.

(I know it's a bandana, but he wears it like an ascot.)

I assume there are transcripts of the Longworth podcasts, because yeah, unfortunately her voice/presentation is not my favorite. My friend (who recommended the series to me) told me he listened to the Val Lewton one and had to grit his teeth every time she said his name. "Looden," apparently.

I assume there are transcripts

your reasoning does not follow

?

A lot of podcasters post transcripts for, at least, the hearing impaired, etc.

There are scripts or transcripts of every episode on Patreon. We will post the scripts for the new season once all the episodes have debuted.

— Karina Longworth (@KarinaLongworth) October 15, 2019

for, at least, the hearing impaired, etc.

That's a completely different reason tbf

I didn't give a reason, tbf, nor does it matter. Don't know where she posts them, though.

You literally just posted a tweet where she says where they're posted.

Oh, wait, I misread her tweet as meaning they were available on Patreon as they're released, but would be made available to everyone when the season was done.

For posterity:

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

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:40 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

<3

Nickelodeon leaves Prime today. Really amped-up slapstick. Only 30 minutes in and it feels like I've already seen 100 pratfalls.

Amazing extended comedy fistfight sequence with Ryan O'Neal & Burt Reynolds.

is it the color version? I've been trying to find a copy of the "special DVD" that supposedly came out in 2009 with both color and B&W versions

It's the color version. I remember seeing that DVD in stores at the time; I don't think many were pressed.

I've only seen it in color, there's a B&W version? This film was not to my tastes in any event.

Bogdanovich wanted to shoot it in b&w, but the suits said no. He ended up with the rights to the film and many years later digitally removed the color with both versions (same cut) bundled with The Last Picture Show in a 2-DVD set.

Yeah, I was just reading about this.

IMDB says the B&W version is 7 minutes longer.

I really enjoyed it. It's flawed but fun, kind of a claustrophobic caricature film. Oddly enough, it reminded me a lot of Heaven's Gate, in that the period detail is so loving and that so many scenes are filled to the brim with actors doing stuff (shades of Altman).

Prime also has The Fortune by Mike Nichols leaving today, so I think I'm gonna do a mid-'70s buddy film diasterpieces double feature.

Bogdanovich and Kovacs actually lit the movie thinking they would strike some B&W prints, or get to it eventually, so it's more than an afterthought effect (according to him). Had no idea that DVD was bundled with Picture Show, no wonder I've had such a hard time finding a copy. I figure if I'm gonna see it, I should just wait until I find a reasonably priced copy of that DVD. As a massive fan of They All Laughed, I'm much more eager to see this because of John Ritter.

wish i'd realized Nickelodeon was on there sooner! i'm sure i'll roll the dice on it somewhere down the line...

The Fortune is *dire* imo, with an enormous, painful gap between the talent involved and what's onscreen.

This is gonna sound all Mr. Burns "I once saw Gentlemen Jim Corbett box an eskimo; back then if a fight didn't go 15 rounds we'd demand our nickel back" but I recall seeing Nickelodeon when it came out - the gimmick was that theaters charged 5 cents for admission.

RIP. L.A. Times obituary

Polly Platt very thoroughly sidelined by both that text, and even moreso by the NYT's much longer and superficially more comprehensive obit. Kind of stunning. Gee, wonder why the first few films were such huge successes and completely-realized statements, and things seemed to go somehow awry after Paper Moon....

Among the many amazing things you could notice in this picture, Orson Welles is smoking a cigar in a grocery store. https://t.co/7hPew8kL3h

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 6, 2022

Wild story of Bogdanovich fandom and the recovery of Squirrels To The Nuts, the original cut of PB's last narrative film, She's Funny That Way.

https://tremblesighwonder.com/2022/01/20/you-saved-one-of-my-best-pictures-my-adventures-with-peter-bogdanovichs-lost-last-picture-show/

Wow. I was on the edge of my seat!

Can They All Laughed currently be screened/streamed? Want to see if it still, um , holds up.

Such a great article, thank you!

A bit OT, but has anyone read Karina's book?

Oof, just tried to JustWatch search They All Laughed, and it's not even in their database!

YouTube sez HI DERE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNYsas5qdl0

^^Looks alright, audio a little tinny.

Thanks!

Feel like the guy gets a somewhat deserved bum rap for being a pompous ass, but he definitely made a valuable contribution more than once.

He is the voice of the DJ on the country music station in this movie!

Probably worth watching now if only for the Old Weird New York.

Probably took me a few viewings back when it came out to not get creped out by Ben Gazzara flirting with Patti Hansen, to name one thing.

XPS Iirc, he did same thing in TLPS. Dude liked his C&W.

He really comes off well in that Squirrels To The Nuts piece.

I'd honestly rather watch movies about They All Laughed than the picture itself

XPS, well remember that Patti Hansen eventually became Mrs. Keith Richards...

Yes, I remember it well, and in that article, I think, no some interview on rogerebert.com, PB claims that what killed her incipient acting career.

Trying to figure out what school Gazzara’s kids are going to.

Come to think of it now I wish he had been the DJ on the one country station we had back then, which he mentions in that same interview.

xpost P.S. 40, on 20th Street!

He meets them outside of Stuyvesant Town on 1st Ave... nice that the film respects the geography even though there's a cut in there and they could have used any school.

And yeah, wow, that article is some kinda wild story. What an absolute dream. (I'm being vague to avoid spoilers for those who haven't read.) Agreed that Bogdanovich comes off well as an older dude writing really sincere and enthusiastic emails. A good mode for him.

I was at the Quad screening of They All Laughed that comes up partway through the story! And I remember the kid asking that question, it was cute and well-handled by Bogdanovich. It was kind of welcome because the atmosphere was a little bit charged --- Bogdanovich got really choked up talking about the film, trying to express how special the cast was to him, and how so many of them were now gone. And then somebody tried to ask him for Dorothy Stratten anecdotes or something, which was very awkward. Anyway, I remember really liking the film, more than I expected - the Hepburn/Gazzara material got to me, and I remember Ritter just floating around on roller skates like Chaplin.

Thanks for that, Doctor Casino.

Here’s one of my favorite stories about him and Orson Welles

Somehow Targets had been completely off my radar until this year, and I was pretty amazed by it. Reading about the circumstances around it, it really makes a great case for setting arbitrary limits in the creative process - having to incorporate another movie's footage, with only a few days to film the star, works out wonderfully. It's probably the hackiest possible thing to call it prescient, but more than anything else, the shooter's last words as he's led away really stuck with me. And Karloff is so great, the movie's worth seeing just for his delivery of the "Appointment in Samarra" story.

re: that wild narrative we were just discussing, MOMA has big news:

The series concludes with the world premiere of Squirrels to the Nuts, Bogdanovich’s long unseen original edit (he called it “the Lubitsch cut”) of the 2014 romantic comedy that was taken out of his hands, recut, substantially reshot, and retitled She’s Funny That Way for a brief release.

(also stoked to maybe catch At Long Last Love and Saint Jack, which I couldn't get myself to when they played at MOMI soon after his passing)