Peter Bogdanovich

Five by Renoir

Peter Bogdanovich — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:33:59 GMT

Jean Renoir (1894-1979), generally now considered the finest picture maker the West has produced, never made a bad movie, so they're all worth watching, especially if you're interested in films...

TWO BY WELLES: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT & THE STRANGER

Peter Bogdanovich — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:00:12 GMT

Perhaps the most difficult-to-see of Orson Welles' films --- and his own personal favorite --- is Chimes at Midnight, his amazing consolidation of the Falstaff sections of five Shakespeare plays into...

AMERICANA: THREE PERIODS

Peter Bogdanovich — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:57:52 GMT

David O. Selznick produced (and co-scripted and even directed bits of) that 1946 western epic Duel in the Sun (available on DVD) in a wild, headlong attempt to outdo in every way his success seven...

THE LUBITSCH FILE - PART 3

Peter Bogdanovich — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:04:52 GMT

This is our final part of the Lubitsch file of pictures of his I saw from 1952 through 1970. For grace and charm in the movies, there's no one greater. And although he was probably the most famous...

ROGER EBERT: THE CRITIC WHO LOVED MOVIES

Peter Bogdanovich — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:01:01 GMT

Most critics make their reputation by writing scathing and very amusing reviews. Not Roger Ebert. He made "thumbs up" his signature, and wrote his best pieces about films he liked or adored. It's...

THE LUBITSCH FILE - PART 2

Peter Bogdanovich — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:42:23 GMT

And so we continue with the Lubitsch films I saw from 1952 through 1970, with the ratings and commentary from my movie-file cards. As I said in Part 1, my admiration and affection for Lubitsch was...

THE LUBITSCH FILE - PART 1

Peter Bogdanovich — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:24:49 GMT

The great Polish-German director Ernst Lubitsch was not an absolute favorite of mine while I was keeping my card file of every movie I saw, 1952-1970, so my ratings and comments would be a great deal...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 6

Peter Bogdanovich — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:45:58 GMT

And so we bring to a close our file of cards on Hitchcock films seen by me between the years 1952 through 1970, with my comments of the time. A great many of these were initially seen in 1963 when I...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 5

Peter Bogdanovich — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:36:11 GMT

And on we go through the Hitchcock pictures I saw from 1952 through 1970, keeping a card-file with credits and comments that would sometimes change if I saw the given film again. These include all...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 4

Peter Bogdanovich — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:46:11 GMT

We continue going through the Hitchcock films in my 1952-1970 card file, and this includes all the pictures he directed for television, not only for his own two series—Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

THE LAST COWBOY: HARRY CAREY, JR.

Peter Bogdanovich — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:33:18 GMT

This short tribute was written for the programme for the Harry Carey, Jr. Memorial, held Saturday, January 12th, in Santa Barbara, California. Harry Carey, Jr.—Dobe to his friends and...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 3

Peter Bogdanovich — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:44:22 GMT

We continue our look at the Hitchcock pictures I saw between 1952 and 1970 (in cards for my movie file), including the television films that Hitch himself directed for his long running half-hour...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 2

Peter Bogdanovich — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:39:05 GMT

We continue going through the Hitchcock pictures in my movie card-file--films of his that I saw between January, 1952 and December, 1970--with my various impressions of each, a couple of them wildly...

THE HITCHCOCK FILE - PART 1

Peter Bogdanovich — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:53:46 GMT

Over the next few weeks, we are going to run all my movie-file cards, 1952-1970, on the films of Alfred Hitchcock, who is currently much in the news because there are two pictures—one on HBO,...

Elder: The Tree of Doom

Peter Bogdanovich — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:45:09 GMT

ELDER The Tree of Doom November 25 - December 22 The Common, or Black-berried, Elder, a waterside member of the Honeysuckle Family, blooms with small white flowers that are at...

THE HAWKS FILE - PART 5

Peter Bogdanovich — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:57:32 GMT

These are the final ten cards on the films of Howard Hawks, seen 1952-1970. The very last is also Hawks’ final picture as a director, and not one of his best, as Howard would have been the...

THE HAWKS FILE - PART 4

Peter Bogdanovich — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:12:59 GMT

Again, here are the next ten cards on Howard Hawks films that I saw 1952-1970. He remains one of my five favorite directors, and he is, as Orson Welles said, perhaps “the most talented American...

Reed: The Tree of Established Power

Peter Bogdanovich — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:08:10 GMT

REED The Tree of Established Power October 28 - November 24 The original tree of this month was the Reed, and the Canna-reed--growing from a root thick as a tree's--was in the...

THE HAWKS FILE - PART 3

Peter Bogdanovich — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:09:48 GMT

The following are another ten cards from my file on Howard Hawks pictures, still in the order in which I first saw them. Of course, I’ve seen a number of these films again, and some of them...

THE HAWKS FILE - PART 2

Peter Bogdanovich — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:30:47 GMT

These are more of my index cards on pictures directed by the great laconic American director of all genres, Howard Hawks; the films below were each seen by me for the first time in 1961, while I was...

Ivy: The Tree of Resurrection

Peter Bogdanovich — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:23:33 GMT

IVY The Tree of Resurrection September 30 - October 27 Ivy, an evergreen climbing shrub that blooms at this time with greenish-yellow flowers followed by dark or yellow berries, is the...

THE HAWKS FILE - PART 1

Peter Bogdanovich — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:40:13 GMT

While I kept a card file on every movie I saw, 1952-1970, I also kept track of films I watched by directors I was most interested in at that time, fifty-five of those, from Aldrich, Robert, to...

Vine: The Tree of Joy, Exhilaration and Wrath

Peter Bogdanovich — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:07:58 GMT

VINE The Tree of Joy, Exhilaration and Wrath September 2 - 29 Vine, described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the trailing or climbing plant bearing grapes from which ordinary...

GORE VIDAL REMEMBERED

Peter Bogdanovich — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:05:14 GMT

Last week, down on New York’s Broadway, there was a memorial for one of our great American artists, Gore Vidal, who was a friend, and I was invited to attend, but could not, because of previous...

The John Ford File: Part 5

Peter Bogdanovich — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:23:37 GMT

T H E J O H N F O R D F I L E (P A R T 5) Just to round things up, here are a bunch of my Ford Cards on a miscellany of pictures he directed, some of them...