Peter Bogdanovich — Actor (21)
Opening Night (1977) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Opening Night
other title: La sera della prima / Noite de Estreia
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hitchcock/Truffaut
director: Kent Jones actor: Bob Balaban / Wes Anderson
other title: Truffaut møder Hitchcock
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
F for Fake (1973) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Vérités et Mensonges
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Oja Kodar
other title: F come Falso / F wie Fälschung
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Lost, Lost, Lost
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Peter Beard / Ed Emshwiller
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New York and his gradual discovery of a vibrant artistic community.
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) [Movie]
Lost, Lost, Lost
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Peter Beard / Ed Emshwiller
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
Lions Love (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Lions Love
director: Agnès Varda actor: Viva / James Rado
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
The Trip (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Trip
director: Roger Corman actor: Peter Fonda / Susan Strasberg
other title: Il serpente di fuoco / Viagem ao Mundo da Alucinação
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
We Blew It (2017) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
We Blew It
director: Jean-Baptiste Thoret actor: Ronee Blakley / Peter Bogdanovich
other title: We blew it / 我们搞砸了
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.
The Other Side of the Wind (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Other Side of the Wind
director: Orson Welles actor: John Huston / Oja Kodar
other title: L'altra faccia del vento / De l'autre côté du vent
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
The Last Picture Show (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
The Last Picture Show
director: Peter Bogdanovich actor: Timothy Bottoms / Cybill Shepherd
other title: L'ultimo spettacolo / Sidste Forestilling
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) [Movie] TMDB
The Great Buster: A Celebration
director: Peter Bogdanovich actor: Peter Bogdanovich / Buster Keaton
other title: The Great Buster / Den store Buster Keaton
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) [Movie] TMDB
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
director: Morgan Neville actor: Alan Cumming / Peter Bogdanovich
other title: Mi ameranno quando sarò morto / Ils m'aimeront quand je serai mort
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Infamous (2006) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban
Infamous
director: Douglas McGrath actor: Toby Jones / Sandra Bullock
other title: Infamous - Una pessima reputazione / Berygtet
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
54 (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
54
director: Mark Christopher actor: Ryan Phillippe / Mike Myers
other title: Studio 54 / 54 (Studio 54)
Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar - and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet.
The Wild Angels (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Wild Angels
director: Roger Corman actor: Peter Fonda / Nancy Sinatra
other title: I selvaggi / De vilde engle
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.