In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as ‘the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.’ Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich’s popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What’s Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances in his own movie trailers, occasionally hosting late-night television shows, and publicly advocating for mentors John Ford and Howard Hawks. No director of his era surpassed his ability to capture an audience’s imagination.
In Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director, journalist and critic Peter Tonguette offers a film-by-film journey through the director’s life and work. Beginning with a string of 1970s classics, Tonguette explores well-known films such as Saint Jack (1979), They All Laughed (1981), and Noises Off (1992), as well as the director’s work on stage and television. Drawing on interviews conducted over sixteen years, Tonguette pairs his analysis with an extensive, previously unpublished series of Q&As with Bogdanovich. These exclusive interviews reveal behind-the-scenes details about the director’s life, work, and future plans. Part memoir, part biography, this book offers a uniquely intimate portrait of one of Hollywood’s most underappreciated directors.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. ‘Call Me Peter, Peter’
2. Q&A
3. Beginnings
4. Three for Corman
5. Directed by John Ford
6. The Last Picture Show
7. What’s Up, Doc?
8. A Western Called Streets of Laredo (and Another Western)
9. Paper Moon
10. Daisy Miller
11. Cybill Does It… to Cole Porter
12. The Gentleman Tramp
13. At Long Last Love
14. Two with Sackler: Bugsy and Down
15. Nickelodeon
16. Back to the Stage?
17. Saint Jack
18. They All Laughed
19. Reading and Meeting Robert Graves
20. The Waxing and Waning of Moon Pictures
21. The Killing of the Unicorn and What It Means
22. Mask
23. Illegally Yours
24. Texasville
25. Noises Off
26. The Thing Called Love
27. The Small Screen
28. The Cat’s Meow
29. The Small Screen Redux—and a Grammy
30. She’s Funny That Way
31. The Great Buster
32. The Other Side of the Wind
33. Wait for Me
Circa l’autore
Peter Tonguette is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, the Christian Science Monitor, Sight & Sound, and the National Review. He is also the editor of Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews.
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