Peter Bogdanovich RIP

[oh oooh]

www.indiewire.com/2022/01/peter-bogdanovich-dead-1234689025/amp/

[Charlie O.]

I love The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc? and Paper Moon, and have been meaning to check out Targets. I don't really know anything about his subsequent work, although I have noticed that he was always ready with a pretty good Orson Welles anecdote or quip.

R.I.P.

[rayge]

Had a lot of time not only for his movies (the first one, name escapes me, with Karloff, was a knockout and I followed him through the Seventies unti my cinema-going fell off a cliff after I moved to Cricklewood), but also his writing. Found him a lot more interesting than any of the French New Wave directors who shared his influences.
RIP

[rayge]

Jan 6, 2022 18:01:15 GMT rayge said:

Had a lot of time not only for his movies (the first one, name escapes me, with Karloff, was a knockout and I followed him through the Seventies unti my cinema-going fell off a cliff after I moved to Cricklewood), but also his writing. Found him a lot more interesting than any of the French New Wave directors who shared his influences.
RIP

Targets.

Thanks Charlie

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Loved his Hitch interview. As a director I always found him pretty average despite his reputation as a key figure of the American New Wave.

[wobblie]

This is good:
theplotthickens.tcm.com/season-one/

The Last Picture Show is a favorite, though I think Polly Platt deserves much more recognition than she received for that. Great book as well.

Targets is worth a watch. I have a feeling TCM will be showing a lot of his work as a tribute soon.

Recently saw River Phoenix's last film 'The Thing Called Love' which, well, sucked.

[DayoRemix]

Another from The Roger Corman Film School passes.. RIP PB

[Sneelock]

I had no idea.
We watched and enjoyed “paper moon” last night for the umpteenth time unaware of this bad news.
He looms large for me but I’m far from blind to his faults. Somebody is supposed to have said that when PB had his first major belly-flop that people in Hollywood cheered for his failure.
He was not a humble man. He was a giant talent. Screwing over Polly Platt did seem to result in some bad karma. That is a very engaging podcast but PB still spends way too much of his time tooting his own horn and sewing his garments to Orson’s.

I admire many of his films even some of the duds. I adore his first collection of essays “who the devil made it”. He was in Hollywood when many of the directors he admired were still alive. He asked them good questions and they gave him good answers. The industry was judging these artists on the box office of their last movie. PB was appreciating them for their achievements. I suppose it’s only fair that we do the same for him.

Watching “Paper Moon” last night made it clear that he learned from the masters he admired. The films of Ford/Hawks and the photographs of people like Walker Evans have gone into the meat grinder. It’s the best meat grinder money can buy - arguably the best cinematographer & editor then working. Seasoning has much to do with the taste of sausage. His sensibilities from watching those movies gave him outstanding filmic sense. Reading reviews that compared him to his heroes seems to have made him a pretty arrogant guy.

Now he’s so obscure that many students of film are unaware of the stature he had & drove into the ground. The best of it should stand the test of time and some of the duds might too.