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Peter Bogdanovich has died

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There's a TCM podcast called The Plot Thickens [0], season 1 of which was all about Peter Bogdanovich and well worth listening to if you're at all interested in the man or the auteur years of Hollywood. I'd also recommend Peter Biskind's Easy Riders Raging Bulls [1], one of my all time favourite books.

[0] https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/season-one/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders%2C_Raging_Bulls

Anyone who's interested in more indepth information on him and on why his career and creative powers fell apart so swiftly after "Picture Show" would be served by reading "Hollywood: A Third Memoir" by Larry McMurtry (author of "Picture Show")

His story is a reminder of how a director is not an island, and his arc has some rough similarities with George Lucas's.

He made Paper Moon and What's Up Doc after that. Are they supposed to be before or after the swift decline?

Swift decline ≠ immediate decline. Paper Moon came out 2 years after Picture Show, after which most of what he made was unwatchable by near unanimous consent. If that's not a swift decline I don't know what is.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000953/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67898.Peter_Bogdanovic...

I've watched it many times. I still LOL every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJhF-eT0MI&t=63s

After watching that film so many times as a child, on my first visit to San Francisco I was astonished to see how much of the city hadn't changed since 1971.

I also made my hosts take me on a pilgrimage to the stairs at Alta Plaza Park, the damage done to which during the filming of What's Up Doc is still visible. IIRC, Bogdanovich didn't request permission to film that scene on the steps, and was to be charged with vandalism if he made himself a nuisance in the city again...

That T1 van...

One of my favorite long “podcast episodes” is this 3.5 hour collection of interviews between Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich. Really interesting discussion between two film greats:

https://youtu.be/1LnuQZ6VD_Y

Last Picture Show is a great film.

It is amazing. A kind of golden age of American cinema.

Also https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainm...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831233, but no comments there)

Bummer. My favorite movie of his is "What's up, Doc?", just a hysterical bit of comedy.

Still one of my favorite movie trivias:

Two years later, backed by Corman, Bogdanovich wrote, directed and appeared in his first film, Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, who owed Corman two shooting days.

(Also one of the last movies starring Karloff.)

An interview with him from 'Talking Sopranos' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ptez22AkA

Saint Jack is a favourite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Jack_(film)

82? He didn't look that old in The Sopranos!

That was 15-20 years ago.

I thought he was 45 or something!

First Grichka Bogdanoff, then Igor Bogdanoff, and now Peter Bogdanovich. Is the grim reaper slicing through his celeb list alphabetically?

You forgot Betty White

Ahhh, but that destroys my perfectly good confirmation bias...

Who?

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