Peter Bogdanovich

  • Peter Bogdanovich – At Long Last Love (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyMusicalPeter BogdanovichUSA

    Four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.

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    Peter Bogdanovich’s stylish take on the classic musicals of the 1930s offers an abundance of pleasures, from wall-to-wall Cole Porter tunes and art-deco sets. Nevertheless, At Long Last Love became the critical punching bag of 1975, due largely to the director’s decision to have his stars perform their songs live on set, a daring experiment that can now be appreciated as part and parcel to the film’s relaxed charm.Read More »

  • James L. Freedman – Carl Laemmle (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJames L. FreedmanUSA

    Carl Laemmle is a feature documentary about the extraordinary life story of Carl Laemmle, the German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Pictures, and saved over 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – The Price of Heaven AKA Blessed Assurance (1997)

    1991-2000DramaPeter BogdanovichTVUSA

    A man is greeted as a war hero in his hometown due to a photo from Korea of Marilyn Monroe and him in LIFE magazine. He ends collecting insurance payments – basically conning poor people. He befriends a cute rich girl and a poor old woman.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show (1971)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichUSA

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    The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – Daisy Miller (1974)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichRomanceUSA

    It’s the late nineteenth century. Annie Miller, more regularly referred to as Daisy, of Schenectady, New York, is on a grand tour of Europe with her mother, Mrs. Ezra Miller, her precocious adolescent brother, Randolph Miller, and their manservant, Eugenio. It is at their stop in Vevey, Switzerland that Daisy meets Frederick Winterbourne, an American expat studying in Geneva. Frederick has mixed emotions about Daisy. On the one hand, he is captivated by her beauty. On the other, he believes her to be uneducated and improper in her modern American attitude and behavior, she basically doing whatever she wants regardless of the possible perception of impropriety by those in Frederick’s social circle.Read More »

  • Eamon Harrington & John Watkin – It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)

    2001-2010DocumentaryEamon HarringtonJohn WatkinUSA

    A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle. From monsters to beach parties to cycle gangs to the psychedelic youth, many film clips are shown, highlighting the company’s successful twenty-five year run in Hollywood. Interviewees include Arkoff, Nicholson (archive footage), Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Burns, Herman Cohen, Roger Corman, Dick Dale, Joe Dante, David Del Valle, Bruce Dern, Roger Ebert, Beverly Garland, Pam Grier, Susan Hart, James L. Honore, Al Kallis, Aron Kincaid, Mark Thomas McGee, Dick Miller, and Burt Topper.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – Mask [Director’s cut](1985)

    1981-1990DramaPeter BogdanovichUSA

    Mask is a 1985 American biographical drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz with supporting roles played by Dennis Burkley, Laura Dern, Estelle Getty, and Richard Dysart. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress.[2] The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis, a boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes.

    Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances.

    Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in the 58th Academy Awards.

    The film is recognized by American Film Institute in the 2006 list for AFI’s 100 Years…100 Cheers

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  • Peter Bogdanovich – Nickelodeon (1976)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaPeter BogdanovichUSA

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    A lawyer, then a writer, then a film director, is the career path of the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan’s vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway.Read More »

  • Alan Yentob – Arena: The Orson Welles Story (1982)

    1981-1990Alan YentobBBCDocumentaryOrson WellesUnited Kingdom

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    Two-part profile of actor-director Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.Read More »

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