After making his directorial debut with 1968’s Targets, the late Peter Bogdanovich followed it up with The Last Picture Show – his breakthrough work that would receive eight Academy Award nominations. His 1971 feature opens on a sight that will break every cinephile’s heart – a cinema on its last […]
Peter Bogdanovich
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Man Up – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 22
Death by Grapes Things get a bit dark this week and now we can’t watch The Family-Ness for a while. On this week’s episode we take a look at Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, eccentric French auteur-extraordinaire Jean Rollin’s Lost in New York, the underappreciated Miyizaki gem Porco Rosso and, well… […]
Paper Moon (1973) Pitch-Perfect Homage to the Golden Age of 1930’s Hollywood (Review)
Films that trade in the retro have become a commodity post-2010, with a countless barrage either slavishly replicating or parodying bygone ages – especially the 1980s. Such films have escaped the cult domain and penetrated the mainstream, truly the mark that something has had its day in the sun. It […]