Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews

by Peter Tonguette (Editor)

Overview

Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. After becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he gave countless interviews to the press about his own career.

This volume collects thirteen of his best, most comprehensive, and most insightful interviews, many long out of print and several never before published in their entirety. They cover more than forty years of directing, with Bogdanovich talking candidly about his great triumphs, such as The Last Picture Show and What's Up, Doc?, and his overlooked gems, such as Daisy Miller and They All Laughed.

Assembled by acclaimed critic Peter Tonguette, also author of a critical biography of Bogdanovich, these interviews demonstrate that Bogdanovich was not only one of America's finest filmmakers, but also one of its most eloquent when discussing film and his own remarkable movies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626743755
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	01/21/2015
Series:	Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Peter Tonguette is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Weekly Standard, Sight&Sound, Film Comment, and many other publications. Also the author of Orson Welles Remembered and The Films of James Bridges, he is author of a critical biography of Peter Bogdanovich.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chronology xv

Filmography xviii

Peter Bogdanovich Eric Sherman Martin Rubin / 1968 3

Without a Dinosaur Gordon Gow / 1972 17

An Interview with Peter Bogdanovich Martin Rubin /1974 27

Dialogue on Film: Peter Bogdanovich American Film Institute /1978 41

Peter Bogdanovich Interview Stephen Myers Larry Estes /1979 63

Peter Bogdanovich: "What Is the Point of Making Pictures?" Michael Ventura /1982 84

Dialogue on Film: Peter Bogdanovich American Film Institute / 1986 92

Peter Bogdanovich Interview Thomas J. Harris/1988 98

Between Action and Cut: Peter Bogdanovich John Gallagher / 1997 107

Interview with Peter Bogdanovich Gerald Peary / 2002 132

Peter Bogdanovich's Year of the Cat Alex Simon / 2002 142

Peter Bogdanovich Stephen Lemons / 2002 160

Peter Bogdanovich Peter Tonguette / 2005 164

Additional Resources 173

Index 175