Peter Bogdanovich News

Heading into its winter and spring seasons, the Wexner Center for the Arts is dropping names: filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for example.

The first job I had in the movie business paid $400 for four weeks' work on location in 1974 in some of the top chicken-fighting spots in Georgia for a movie called "Cockfighter." I wouldn't put myself in their illustrious company, but I have a hunch that filmmakers such as Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Monte Hellman, Jack ...

Wagon Master Directed by John Ford. "Hi, my name is Peter Bogdanovich and I had nothing to do with this movie, except that I love it." That's the first line from the commentary track, the only extra feature on this DVD but one that John Ford fans will regard as a treasure.

The weekend film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is back in business .

There are movie stars and then there are movie stars -- performers who have such a unique and often indescribable quality that their very name connotes the magic of the cinema.

The Last Picture Show takes place in the small dusty Texas town of Anarene during the early 1950s.

Cloris Leachman, an Academy Award winner for her role in "The Last Picture Show," will be honored during this year's Port Townsend Film Festival Sept.

"Paper Moon" starred Ryan and 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal, who won a supporting actress Oscar.

"Lonesome Dove," published in 1985 and distilled into a durably appealing television miniseries in 1989, is something of a modern phoenix.

The Peter Bogdanovich story is a Hollywood tale through and through, replete with memorable associations and fantastic success mitigated by mediocrity, tragedy and bankruptcy.

Multiple-pairs romantic comedy by Peter Bogdanovich, whose concept of romance, as of comedy, tends to be hand-me-down and to not suit him very well.