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The great filmmaker/critic/historian Peter Bogdanovich worked on this podcast. On it, he talks to contemporary filmmakers about dead filmmakers he interviewed when he was much younger. You get to hear clips from the old interviews interspersed with the new interviews as people like Guillermo Del Toro and Tarantino and Greta Gerwig discuss Hitchcock and Don Siegel and Howard Hawks. Sadly there are a couple episodes without Peter as he died before he was able to finish -- his ex-wife and Guillermo and Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach carried on the mission though. I knew Peter a minuscule amount when I was a kid working on an updated version of his documentary Directed By John Ford, and he was always so kind, remembered my name etc. (not a given). He had a tumultuous life and career but left an indelible mark on film history. Listen to this and watch Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, you can't go wrong.
Apr 1, 2024
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🎇Changed my life and how I saw film as a medium and the act of vision itself.if youre lucky and live in nyc always check anthology for screenings cause you won’t want to miss his work screened on film. Youtube has a bunch of his work I linked to one of my favs.
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🎥I‘m always intrigued by his takes/insight, even when I disagree. + he has fantastic interviews with the likes of Herzog and Von Trier.
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