RIP Peter Bogdanovich

[TheSportsPredictor]

A legendary director.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Paper Moon was so good. The scene of Addie lighting up in bed was just priceless.

Rest well.

 

[Tighthead]

Loved him in the Sopranos.

 

[garrow]

One of the many talented, creative directors who came to the fore in the 1970s. Last Picture Show is a true classic. His book on Orson Welles is a good read. And like his contemporary Sydney Pollack, Bogdanovich was also a fine actor. RIP.

 

[Azrael]

Our Truffaut, to his rest.

 

[goalmouth]

After his girlfriend, Dorothy Stratten, was murdered, he started dating her sister.

As one does.

 

[Songbird]

Paper Moon was so good. The scene of Addie lighting up in bed was just priceless.

Rest well.

The squabble over bibles as they're driving is so good.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

After his girlfriend, Dorothy Stratten, was murdered, he started dating her sister.

As one does.

Yeah….that was something

 

[freqposter]

Rest in peace to one of the original cads.

Rest easy, sir.

 

[lakefront]

The Plot Thickens: A Podcast from Turner Classic Movies

"Welcome to The Plot Thickens, a new documentary podcast about the movies and the people who make them. Our first season is I’m Still Peter Bogdanovich, the tale of a young cinephile who became one of Hollywood’s top directors – but soon found himself a victim of jealousy, public scorn, and a devastating crime."

 

[Tighthead]

Peter Bogdanovich on His Masterpieces, Womanizing, and Deaths He Didn’t Mourn

 

[Sea Bass]

Yeah….that was something

Sees nothing wrong:

 

[hondo]

The squabble over bibles as they're driving is so good.

My personal favorite:

 

[hondo]

We also have him to thank for giving us a naked, 20-year-old Cybil Shepherd.

 

[DanOregon]

To me, the car chase from What's Up Doc? belongs in the top 5 of SF car chase scenes. Piling on the ridiculous, with even more ridiculousness.

 

[lakefront]

Those cars! Oh the humanity!

 

[maumann]

PUNCHBUG! PUNCHBUG! PUNCHBUG!

 

[Liut]

He hit some big bush.

 

[Starman]

Directed Sidney Poitier in the made-for-cable "To Sir With Love 2" in 1995, which is surprisingly not-completely-abominable. It tries too hard to sell its up-to-dateness, but Poitier sells himself as Mark Thackeray once again. He is the same exact guy, 25 years later. Bodgdanovich nailed it.

 

[BartonK]

Someone I know used to work as an assistant to a director in LA. In the last 20 years, Bogdanovich was well-known as a charity case, looked after by various more successful Hollywood types. He'd lived in this director's guesthouse for a year, about a decade ago. He'd been evicted from a hotel before that for non-payment. I texted her about the death and her response: "wherever he passed, I guarantee it was someone else's guesthouse."

EDIT: re-reading this, it comes off a bit cold without context. I should mention my friend has complained about Bogdanovich for years, and he was not a great guest. He wouldn't plunge his own toilet and insisted plumbers be called instead, things like that.