Peter Bogdanovich, the maker of such classics as Saint Jack and Texasville?!?!?
I liked Saint Jack.
yes robley and the director of Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask, Whats Up Doc, Noises Off, Targets and a lot of great films
When do you think it’ll come out?
Targets, is that that Karl Borloff flick?
I’ve heard good things…
—DiB
its a very good film polar
It’s on me Netflix queue somewhere!
—DiB
move it up and give daisy miller and paper moon a chance while u are at it
Texasville is a masterpiece. The logical follow-up to the Last Picture Show, whereby an isolated culture is invaded by pop culture and insanity breaks out.
Turn of the Century is a weak and now very dated novel. Bogdanovich is a great critic and scholar (some of my best film experiences were at the screenings he presented at the MoMA in the late 90s and Who The Devil Made It is essential reading) but a mediocre director even when he was at the top of his game (Saint Jack, Targets, Paper Moon, They All Laughed, and Last Picture Show). The Cat’s Meow was not terrible but pretty weak and inconsequential. Not holding out for too much.
how can the man who made picture show, paper moon and they all laughed be mediocre?
good directors make good to great films and those and others certainly qualify
he is a great actors director, the last to mine Hepburn for sexual chemistry in they all laughed, one of the few to get a good performance out of Cher and Eric Stoltz in Mask and Dunst has only been good in Marie Ant. and Cats Meow, a perfectly cast film
Plus he is a wonderful homage directed; Whats Up Doc is as good an approximation of a screwball comedy as Hawks had done, maybe not up there with bringing up baby but certainly monkey business
This is really great news. Bogdanovich is one of my favorite filmmakers (I could even go as far as to say "one of my 10 favorite filmmmakers). I’ve never disliked any of his films. On the contrary, I love some of his most ignored movies like They All Laughed and Daisy Miller. The Cat’s Meow and The Mystery of Natalie Wood both show promise that he’s still a pretty damn good director, even though his subtle ways of characterization are not so popular these days.
Do you love Illegally Yours too, his Rob Lowe “screwball” comedy? Or Nickelodeon? Man, his duds are really duds. Nickelodeon is actually probably not as bad as some of his other films and not really worthy of hate but it’s not very good either unless you like your comedies unfunny. And I don’t really feel bad for his career downturn since he seems to have fallen victim to his own hubris.
Den, Cat’s Meow is perfectly cast??? I mean, Dunst can’t act. That’s a given but much as I like Eddie Izzard he was a very weak Chaplin. “Whats Up Doc is as good an approximation of a screwball comedy as Hawks had done” – Oy!
I mentioned Dunst cannot act except in that picture and sofia coppolas.
I like Illegally yrs and love Nickelodeon.(many great directors have a few bad films)
Izzard is a fantastic chaplin (better than Downey) and Edward Herrmann is a perfect Hurst
I really can’t decide whether to be excited or terrified. Bogdanovich is so inconsistent.
Nickelodeon is very good. I have never seen such a loving portrait of the past myself.
move it up and give daisy miller and paper moon a chance while u are at it
Not to be polemic or anything but I’ve read Daisy Miller and loved it, so I don’t much feel like watching a movie version of it, thanks.
—PolarisDiB
Especially not that atrocious version of it.
daisy miller is one of my fav books
the movie is good but not great; it is worth watching as a movie
it is quite lovely (great cinematography and music) and shepard is better than usual
but if u love the book and a good but not great version isn’t worth seeing to u
then avoid it
Turns out he’s actually going to do Squirrel To The Nuts_, “a screwball comedy about an escort, a theatre director and a private detective” (to be produced by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach), firstsquirre .
The screenplay for Turn of the Century is also finished.
^ link
Squirrel To The Nuts he was trying to do in the early 90s with John Ritter
will be nice to see
^^Noises Off was balls though imo. did you like it?
I thought it was pretty funny
no doubt it would have worked better on stage
“The Last Picture Show,” “Targets,” and “They All Laughed” were absolutely brilliant; “Texasville,” Jerry, was a decent enough update of “Picture Show” but hardly a masterpiece. I look forward to “Squirrel.”
Sqirrel to the Nuts and Turn of the Century! Let him do both!
Z.BART: yeah, Texasville was ok, but kind of redunant. the last shot was corny as hell. i understand the point was to link it with the former picture, and make a suggestion about the characters and their fate, but it had no resonance whatsoever. The film just didnt’ need to be made. Bogo was just trying to revive his flagging career at that point, and why he thought people cared all these years later is beyond me. Although Last Picture Show is respected by cinephiles and one of the early critical and financial successes of New Hollywood, the public just kind of forgot about it, and fans of the original were probably skeptical anyway.
the sequel book (and the later 3rd, 4th and 5th books) were all successful no reason to think the movie would not have been.
The same thing happened with the film sequel to Terms of Endearment. I do wish tho that Bogo would make the other novels into films, particularly Rhino Ranch
Dennis: I’d like to see Bogdanovich find a younger, edgier contemporary novelist to form the same partnership he had with McMurtry; I don’t think he necessarily needs to helm any more adaptations of McMurtry novels.
Dennis Brian
This is his first since the pretty good The Cats Meow (2001) and before that Thing Called Love (93)
Bogdanovich knows a great deal about film and has written some good books but he belongs making feature films, from darkhorizons.com
Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show,” “The Cat’s Meow”) will co-write and direct an adaptation of “Turn of the Century” for Das Films says The Hollywood Reporter.
Kurt Andersen’s 1999 social satire novel following a Manhattan power couple, George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, in a troubled marriage thanks to the pace of their professional lives. Bogdanovich and Parish Rahbar will co-pen the screenplay.