Peter Bogdanovich

One of his other documentaries that I've seen, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, about the DJ Rodney Bingenheimer.

And he I would like to see his picture this the times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas.

That sounds really unique to me.

He also did factory girls.

like i don't want to be near that guy i cover your drink ladies well somewhat

charming in a way um Peter Bogdanovich as Wells, why is Kane more sympathetic in the film than in the script? And Wells said, because I found out more about him when I played the character.

And when you play a character, you have to empathize with the character to some extent, but there's a charm that he has and a sense of potential.

If he were just an ogre, it would not be as good a film, but it's a very three-dimensional portrait.

This was written by Charles B. Griffith.

With an uncredited writing credit for Peter Bogdanovich, Charles B. Griffith also wrote The Little Shop of Horrors.

He had an uncredited writing credit for Barbarella.

And he also wrote Death Race 2000 and Eat My Dust from Ron Howard.

Peter Bogdanovich wrote Targets, The Last Picture Show, St. Jack, which we've talked about before.

They all laughed.

cinematographer richard moore he also lensed and lit the scalp hunters the reavers the life and times of judge roy bean the stone killer and annie from 1982 and another uncredited peter bogdanovich credit for cinematography here so bogdanovich just having his hands all over this movie Production designer Rick Beckmeyer.

and uh yeah it spawned some of the greatest uh films and directors of our generation well i guess the generation before us but inspired directors we also love so yeah

Badlands from Terrence Malick.

Paper Moon, I suppose, from Bogdanovich.

But I mean, if you look at, again, American Graffiti compared to, say, Mean Streets, it's much more mature.

It's much more technically complicated than Mean Streets as kind of announcing as Mean Streets is that here is this raw talent that is so different from anything else that is currently going around at the time.

And so it's kind of eerie because The Other Side of the Wind is partly inspired by John Ford.

When Peter Bogdanovich told Wells that Ford couldn't get a job, it really bothered him.

And so he

made this film about an old director trying to finish a

an uncompleted film, and he's trying to curry favor with the youth movement, but it doesn't really work, and it's about the disaster of his last birthday party, and he drives off, suicidally gets killed at the end.

And so I was putting the film, Wells was looking for some film buff types, and he asked Peter Bogdanovich to find some, and I had met Bogdanovich on week two, And I went to his house, and he knew everything about Ford and Wells because he was close to both of them.

So he was very helpful to me in answering questions.

It was harder in those days to find out what was going on, but he was a great help.

And so it's kind of eerie because The Other Side of the Wind is partly inspired by John Ford.

When Peter Bogdanovich told Wells that Ford couldn't get a job, it really bothered him.

And so

he made this film about an old director trying to finish a

an uncompleted film, and he's trying to curry favor with the youth movement, but it doesn't really work, and it's about the disaster of his last birthday party, and he drives off, suicidally gets killed at the end.

And so I was putting the film, Wells was looking for some film buff types, and he asked Peter Bogdanovich to find some, and I had met Bogdanovich on week two, And I went to his house, and he knew everything about Ford and Wells because he was close to both of them.

So he was very helpful to me in answering questions.

It was harder in those days to find out what was going on, but he was a great help.

wow.

He worked with Peter Bogdanovich on it, too, though.

Peter consulted since he was a star of it.

So, Chris, Peter Bogdanovich worked with?

Bob, my husband.

Yeah, Orson.