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Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022)

Autor(a) de This Is Orson Welles

65+ Works 1,633 Membros 22 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Peter Bogdanovich is the author of thirteen books. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire and the New York Observer
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Obras de Peter Bogdanovich

This Is Orson Welles (1992) 285 cópias
The Last Picture Show [1971 film] (1971) — Director/Screenwriter — 117 cópias
What's Up, Doc? [1972 film] (1972) — Director — 107 cópias
Noises Off [1992 film] (1992) 82 cópias
John Ford (1967) — Autor — 81 cópias
Paper Moon [1973 film] (1973) — Director — 57 cópias
Mask [1985 film] (1985) — Director — 53 cópias
Fritz Lang in America (1967) 31 cópias
The Cat's Meow [2001 film] (2002) 29 cópias
Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer (1971) 25 cópias
The Thing Called Love [1993 film] (1993) — Diretor — 20 cópias
Daisy Miller [1974 film] (1974) 19 cópias
Targets [1968 film] (2003) 16 cópias
She's Funny That Way (2015) 12 cópias
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream [2007 film] (2008) — Diretor; Diretor — 8 cópias
Texasville [1990 film] (1990) — Director & Screenplay — 6 cópias
Nickelodeon [1976 film] — Diretor — 5 cópias
The Great Buster: A Celebration [2018 film] (2018) — Diretor — 5 cópias
Il cinema secondo John Ford (1990) 5 cópias
The Cinema of Howard Hawks (1962) 5 cópias
On Cukor (American Masters) [2000 TV episode] (2001) — Diretor — 4 cópias
Hustle (2006) — Diretor — 3 cópias
A Moment with Miss Gish (1995) 3 cópias
Saint Jack 2 cópias
At Long Last Love (1975) 2 cópias
To Sir With Love II [1996 TV Movie] (1996) — Diretor — 2 cópias
A Saintly Switch [1999 film] (1999) — Diretor — 2 cópias
La última película 1 exemplar(es)
The Last Picture Show 1 exemplar(es)
Il Prezzo del Coraggio 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Paper Moon (1971) — Introdução, algumas edições413 cópias
F for Fake [1973 film] (1979) 65 cópias
Infamous [2006 film] (2007) 49 cópias
Clash by Night [1952 film] (1952) 20 cópias
Abandoned [2010 film] (2010) — Actor — 6 cópias
The Creatress [2009 film] — Actor — 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Bogdanovich, Peter
Data de nascimento
1939-07-30
Data de falecimento
2022-01-06
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
País (para mapa)
USA
Local de nascimento
Kingston, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Ocupação
director
screenwriter
actor
Relacionamentos
Shepherd, Cybill (lover)

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Resenhas

 
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BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
In the style of a Woody Allen film with quirky characters, and this movie doesn't work as entertainment. The characters are neurotic more than quirky. Overall are moments of an interview with one character, which does not seem to be a useful element in the story. It's full of cliché gags, and not done in an interesting way. For example, two scenes of extended jugging calls on two phones. The story has an interesting twist with Owen Wilson's character; the characters all have overlapping scenarios and cross paths—not interesting tension, just extended tension. Wonderful cast, so the acting is spot on. A good director, yet in my opinion, this movie is not worth watching.
— Rebecca
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pandr65 | 1 outra resenha | Feb 9, 2024 |
The book is a collection of interviews of 16 movie directors that the author knew, and, as a bonus, he discusses the scandals and tribulations of his own life and career in the book’s introduction. The interviews were done at various times between the 1960s and the 1990s; many were previously published as magazines articles. Several of the directors did work in silent films. If you have an interest in movies, the book should be broadly entertaining. Some of the directors' life stories, their revelation of how certain famous scenes were shot, their complaints about their producers and heads of studios, and their stories about actors are often both interesting and amusing.

Did you know that Lana Turner was originally cast to play the lead in Anatomy of a Murder, but she refused to wear a pair of slacks that the director, Otto Preminger, had selected? Preminger told her agent that if she didn’t like it, she could turn the picture down. Preminger said that she probably thought he was bluffing, but the role went to Lee Remick.

Howard Hawks, while discussing Barbary Coast (1935), commented that it was the first time he had used Walter Brennan, and told the story that a man came up to him in tears after the movie’s preview and said that he didn’t know how to thank Hawks. Hawks didn’t know who he was until Brennan took out his teeth. He had never seen him except in makeup and Brennan was playing (and often played) characters who were older than he was.

The directors interviewed are Allan Dwan, Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar G. Ulmer, Otto Preminger, Joseph H. Lewis, Chuck Jones, Don Siegel, Frank Tashlin, Robert Aldrich, and Sidney Lumet.
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markm2315 | 1 outra resenha | Jul 1, 2023 |
This is the companion volume to Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell Made It in which the author has written entertaining summaries of the lives and work of 25 famous actors. The chapters are centered around the author’s interactions or relationships with the actors – if he had any. In some cases, e.g. Marilyn Monroe, his personal relationship may be just that he once sat behind them in an acting class. In several cases, the chapters are constructed from earlier journalistic pieces PB had researched and written.

There is a lot of interesting historical information here, as well as the author's personal insight into the psyches of the actors he knew or interviewed. Yet after a while, the chapters sometimes seemed like a farrago of nostalgia, overblown appreciation of the mediocre, narcissism, and gossip. I felt that his other volume about directors told me much that I didn’t know, but that I didn’t benefit nearly as much from being told how funny PB thought that Jerry Lewis was or what great actors Dean Martin and John Wayne were. After all, we are unlikely to know how Lubitsch made his movies (or how movies are made at all), but anybody can watch Rio Bravo or The Bellboy.
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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
65
Also by
7
Membros
1,633
Popularidade
#15,731
Avaliação
4.0
Resenhas
22
ISBNs
135
Idiomas
5
Favorito
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