Peter Bogdanovich

This part consists of comments on some of his finest and most popular work, including The Big Parade, The Champ, and Street Scene, as well as one of his most provocative, Ruby Gentry.   The ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-king-vidor-file-part-2-20160327

The night before the SXSW Film Festival got under way, Michael Barker, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, defended his communal love of film in theaters. "In pursuing the new future, we c...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/sxsw-film-2016-honors-the-past-while-facing-an-exciting-gaudy-and-uncertain-future-20160313

If I saw a movie more than once, I would add my reactions to each viewing. Turns out I watched thirty-nine King Vidor pictures in those years, seven of them twice, and of these I saw two of them ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-king-vidor-file-part-one-20160221

There isn’t a single public appearance I’ve made over the last thirty years during which I wasn’t asked about Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind.” Every time, the people wanted...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/orson-welles-last-picture-show-peter-bogdonavich-on-the-other-side-of-the-wind-20150511

And so we come to the end of my cards on the ineffable films of the great Jean Renoir which I saw 1952-1970 and noted in my movie file for those nineteen years. This includes some of my favorites...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-jean-renoir-file-part-3-20150414

Summer blockbuster season is just around the corner, but there's no need to wait until then to see a great movie. April brings us a wide variety of women-centric projects, as well as quite a few ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/april-2015-film-preview-20150401

We continue with the films of Jean Renoir which I saw 1952-1970 and noted in my movie card-file for those years. You may note that the first four films were all made in America and shot in Englis...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-jean-renoir-file-part-2-20150220

Jean Renoir is not only my favorite picturemaker, I fervently believe he is the greatest director the West has produced. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If I want to reassure myse...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-jean-renoir-file-part-1-20150129

And so we come to the end of the Minnelli File, all the pictures of his that I saw 1952-1970, and made comments on for my movie card-file of every film I saw in that formative 19-year period. One...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-vincente-minnelli-file-part-3-20141227

Onward we go through the films Vincente Minnelli directed that are rated and commented on in my 1952-1970 card file of movies I saw in that period. As I indicated in Part 1, Minnelli’s good pic...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-vincent-minnelli-file-part-2-20141201

We’re now going to go through all the pictures directed by Vincente Minnelli (Liza’s Dad), which I saw and commented upon in my 1952-1970 movie card-file. I came to appreciate this director�...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-vincente-minnelli-file-part-1-20141102

The first film festival in the world was held in the most unique city in the world: this year was Venice’s 71st Festival, though that’s deceptive because the event was suspended during World ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/venice-2014-20140916

And so we come to the end of our Welles File, comprised of all films Welles had some kind of hand in---director, writer, actor, producer, narrator---which I saw 1952-1970 and noted with comments ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-blog-part-5-20140730

Back to all the Orson Welles movies I saw between 1952 and 1970, and the comments on them which I kept in my movie card-file. Unfortunately, very few of the pictures left were directed by Welles....

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-file-part-4-20140713

Onward through all the Orson Welles pictures I saw and kept cards on for my 1952-1970 movie file, films OW either directed, produced, wrote, or acted in; the latter category, unfortunately, domin...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-file-part-3

And so we continue with the Orson Welles pictures---as director, producer, writer, actor, narrator---that I saw 1952-1970, and on which I wrote comments and ratings for my movie card-file. I firs...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-file-part-2

Orson Welles. How much he has meant in my life. For good, mainly. Certainly he was the first film director to inspire me to direct pictures, as he did for so many others down the years. No matter...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-file-part-1

My Dear Blogdanovich Readers, I'm really sorry to have disappeared the last few months but I've been making a new picture. It's called Squirrels to the Nuts. It's a comedy (with that title, it ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/they-rode-with-the-duke

And so we bring to a close our look at the pictures George Cukor had a hand in, which I saw 1952-1970, and on which I kept comments and ratings in my film card-file for those nineteen years. Geor...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-cukor-file-part-5

And so we continue our look at the George Cukor movies that I saw 1952-1970 and kept a record of in my card-file for those years. For more from me on Cukor, please see the relevant chapter in my ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/00000143-5a25-d395-a377-7e6faa680000

Ever onward we go through the 49 films George Cukor had a hand in that I saw 1952-1970, and kept cards on, in my file of comments and ratings during those nineteen complicated and important years...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/00000142-fda1-d395-a376-ffefa97f0000

And we continue going through the George Cukor-directed pictures in my 1952-1970 card-file of ratings and comments on the movies I saw during that very formative 19-year period. LES GIRLS (1957;...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-george-cukor-file-part-2

For the next few blogs, we are going through all the George Cukor-directed pictures in my 1952-1970 card-file of comments on movies I saw during that period, as I went from age 12 1/2 to 30 1/2.�...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-george-cukor-file-part-1

The following was written for the Eileen Brennan Memorial, which was held in Los Angeles last week; I was unable to be there, but the piece was read at the event. I first saw Eileen Brennan in ...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/eileen-brennan-1932-2013

What's the big difference between Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and the sequel, For A Few Dollars More?  The sequel is infinitely better because it has a lot of humor, missing in the first...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/luciano-vincenzoni-1926-2013