 Bella Mafia 1997  TV, 240 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Greene
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas, James Marsden, W. Earl Brown, Richard Portnow, Franco Nero, Peter Bogdanovich
Vanessa Redgrave won a Golden Globe nomination for her role of Graziella Luciano in this TV miniseries. The plot involves Graziella and her daughters-in-law who swear to avenge the Mafia murders of their husbands.
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Broken English 2007 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Zoe R. Cassavetes
Cast: Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo, Tim Guinee, Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich, Roy Thinnes, Michael Panes, Justin Theroux, Philip Pavel, Melvil Poupaud, Dana Ivey, Bill Wise, Josh Hamilton, Griffin Dunne, Lucy Gordon
Having forsaken the art world for her job as guest-coordinator at a Manhattan hotel and lacking a love life, overly cautious Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) is not living the "good life." It doesn't help that her mother (Gena Rowlands) never misses the chance to point out that Nora is now in her thirties and not in a solid relationship. Adding to her discontent is that her best friend Audrey (Drea de Matteo) just celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary with her adoring husband Mark (Tim Guinee)–but Audrey does question whether she is really in a "perfect marriage." Then Nora meets and falls for well-known French actor Julien (Melvil Poupaud) who asks her to go to France with him. Nora declines, but later, at Audrey's urging, Nora throws caution to the wind, and the two women fly to Paris in search of Julien. It turns out that Nora has lost Julien's phone number and he has a common name, which result in a search involving a more than a few humorous moments.
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The Cat's Meow 2001  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly, Claudia Harrison, Victor Slezak, Ronan Vibert, James Laurenson, Chiara Schoras, Claudie Blakley
Based on true events, this is a good fictionalized version of the scandal surrounding the death of producer Tom Ince (Cary Elwes) aboard William Randolph Hearst's (Edward Herrmann) yacht during a fancy gathering of celebrities hosted by Hearst and his mistress, Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst). A scenario is presented of what may have occurred as the Hollywood elite are shown in their real colors.
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Dedication 2007  R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Justin Theroux
Cast: Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Bob Balaban, Tom Wilkinson, Dianne Wiest, Bobby Cannavale, Christine Taylor, Peter Bogdanovich, Amy Sedaris, Cassidy Hinkle, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jeremy Shamos, John Ellison Conlee, Martin Freeman
Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) suffers from depression but makes a living writing children's books, and his only friend is his illustrator Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson). But Rudy's health declines, and he dies of a brain tumor. Now, Henry's publisher Arthur Plank (Bob Balaban) wants Henry's latest book completed and assigns illustrator Lucy (Mandy Moore) to complete the job. As Henry lets go of Rudy through conversations with the dead man, he falls in love with Lucy and learns that life can be a gamble as he tries to win Lucy away from her former professor (Martin Freeman).
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Festival in Cannes 2001 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Jaglom
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver, Zack Norman, Peter Bogdanovich, Jenny Gabrielle, Camilla Campanale, Alex Craig Mann, Kim Kolarich
Three stories about women in the entertainment world intertwine to show the viewer what it would be like to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Popular star Millie (Anouk Aimee) has now hit the age at which she is offered only "mother" roles; a hopeful writer, Alice (Greta Scacchi) arrives looking for financing to turn her story into a movie; and young actress, Blue (Jenny Gabrielle), finds her new film a huge success and herself in great demand.
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Hustle 2004  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Dash Mihok, Melissa DiMarco, Sarain Boylan, Paulino Nunes, Paul Fauteux, Carlos Diaz, Joe Bostick, Edie Inksetter, George DiCenzo, David Macniven, Alex Karzis
The downhill tumble of baseball legend Pete Rose is the subject of this made-for-TV film featuring Tom Sizemore as Pete Rose struggling with his gambling addiction.
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Illegally Yours 1988  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Harry Carey Jr., Kenneth Mars, Kim Myers, Marshall Colt, George Morfogen, Rick Jason, Jessica James, Tony Longo, Linda MacEwen, Ira Heiden, Howard Hirdler, Louise Stratten, David Reeves
A college student (Rob Lowe) serves jury duty for a murder trial in which his childhood sweetheart (Colleen Camp) is the defendant.
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The Independent 2000 R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephen Kessler
Cast: Jerry Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Max Perlich, Anne Meara, Ben Stiller, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Ted Demme, Fred Williamson, Nick Cassavetes, Paul Logan, Julie Strain, Andy Dick
This mockumentary centers on filmmaker Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) whose work has involved low-budget exploitation films. Now, on the verge of bankruptcy, Fineman coerces daughter Paloma (Janeane Garofalo) into helping gain recognition by filming the story of a convicted murderer.
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Infamous 2006 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas McGrath
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lee Pace, John Benjamin Hickey, Michael Panes, Juliet Stevenson
In 1959, after reading a newspaper article about the murders of a Kansas family of four, young writer Truman Capote (Toby Jones) and friend Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock) head for Kansas to investigate the case. After interviewing the killers–Dick Hickock (Lee Pace) and Perry Smith (Daniel Craig)–Capote forms a bond with Smith. Later, following the executions of Smith and Hickock, Capote is inspired to write "In Cold Blood."
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The Last Picture Show 1971  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Bill Thurman, Sam Bottoms, Noble Willingham, Joe Heathcock, Jessie Lee Fulton, Sharon Taggart
In the small town of Anarene, Texas, during the 1950s, high-school football players Sonny and Duane (Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges) are best friends. The boys hang out at the local pool hall owned by Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson) who also owns the town's old movie house. There isn't much going in their world. Both boys are enamored with their beautiful fellow student Jacy (Cybill Shepherd in her first film), and Duane begins dating her. As graduation approaches, Duane enlists to serve in the Korean War, and Sonny continues his fling with Coach Popper's (Bill Thurman) wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman). Now, Sam the Lion has died, his theater is closing, and the boys find their own changing lives paralleling those of the world around them. Oscars went to Johnson and Leachman for their supporting roles. There were also six other nominations, including Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Bridges), Supporting Actress (Ellen Burstyn for her role as Jacy's mother), and Director.
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 Mask 1985 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Laura Dern, Micole Mercurio, Harry Carey Jr., Dennis Burkley, Ben Piazza, Wayne Grace, Lawrence Monoson, L. Craig King, Alexandra Powers, Kelly Jo Minter
Based on a true story, this heartwarming tale relates the ordeals of teenager Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz) who has the disfiguring disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, that has doubled his head size. Rocky keeps a good attitude, and his mother Rusty (Cher) fights for Rocky's rights, but she turns to drugs to ease the pressures she endures when dealing with Rocky's problems. Undaunted, Rocky gets his own life in order and then works to keep Rusty away from her drugs.
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Mr. Jealousy 1997 R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brian Kerwin, Peter Bogdanovich, Bridget Fonda, John Lehr, Noah Baumbach
Lester Grimm (Eric Stoltz) is so jealous of his girlfriend Ramona's (Annabella Sciorra) last lover, Dashiell (Chris Eigeman), that he joins a therapy group to get close to Dashiell and learn whether or not he still has feelings for Ramona.
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Nickelodeon 1976 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens, John Ritter, Harry Carey Jr., James Best, George Gaynes, M. Emmet Walsh, Jane Hitchcock, Jack Perkins, Brion James, Sidney Armus, Joe Warfield
The story begins in 1910 when Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) is invited to be a Hollywood screen writer. His career spirals, he becomes a director, and he falls for leading lady Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock). But, Kathleen decides to marry Harrigan's leading man, cowboy actor Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds). Harrigan and Greenway go their separate ways but are reunited by story's end.
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Noises Off 1992   PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Mark Linn-Baker, Nicollette Sheridan
Based on Michael Frayn's play, this is the story of how eccentric theatrical actors and stagehands manage to get off the ground and onto Broadway. 1 User Review
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| | Imperfect for sure, but a classroom in comic timing | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The third act is unnecessary and unbelievable. The finale is so artificial that it passeth all justification.
But Bogdanovich is a master of comic timing. (Watch the opening scenes of "What's Up Doc?" sometime.) And this movie is worth the price of admission just to watch the timing in the first two acts. The actors are one-dimensional, but it is a farce, and they are meant to be one-dimensional. We expected this level of work from Carol Burnett -- frankly, we saw it every week on TV for years -- bit John Ritter is a revelation as a physical comic and Christopher Reeve is really quite good as an understated comic foil.
Watch the first half anyway. If fact, watch it twice. |
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Opening Night 1977 N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, Peter Bogdanovich, Laura Johnson, John Finnegan, James Karen
All the backstage drama of an aging actress (Gena Rowlands) is presented in this insightful film written by, directed by, and starring John Cassavetes.
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Paper Moon 1973  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson, Noble Willingham, Randy Quaid, Burton Gilliam, Jessie Lee Fulton, James N. Harrell, Lila Water, Liz Ross, Bob Young, Jack Saunders, Jody Wilber
Orphaned ten-year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal) is cared for by Bible salesman, con artist Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) while he is taking her to relatives in St. Joseph, Missouri. Along the way, Addie becomes adept at selling Bibles, and Moses is thrilled that Addie is turning into a great con artist as well. In fact, Addie likes working as a team with Moses and even breaks up his romance with Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn) in order to assure herself a place in Moses' life. The question soon becomes, "Who can out-con the other?" Ryan's daughter Tatum is definitely a chip off the old block, and she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Madeline Kahn was also nominated for Supporting Actress.
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Rated X 2000 R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Emilio Estevez
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Rafer Weigel, Tracy Hutson, Megan Ward, Terry O'Quinn, Danielle Brett, Nicole de Boer, Deborah Grover, Peter Bogdanovich, Geoffrey Blake, Dylan McFadyen, Robert Clark, Caterina Scorsone
Brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez portray the Mitchell brothers, Artie and Jim, who, after opening a San Francisco strip club, gained fame and notoriety for their successful porn films. Cocaine addictions would later cause their world to fall down around them.
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women 1997 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Elizabeth Perkins, Nicky Guadagni, Michael Cameron, Fraser McGregor, Al Waxman, Sela Ward, Anne Jackson, Fritz Weaver, Michael Landes, Theresa Tova
In this premier entry in a series of omnibus films, two separate stories of resistance are offered as two women–a nanny (Elizabeth Perkins) and a Catholic rectory secretary (Sela Ward) perform individual acts of heroism in saving Jews during World War II.
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Saint Jack 1979 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, George Lazenby, Peter Bogdanovich, Lisa Lu, Rodney Bewes, Mark Kingston, Monika Subramaniam, Judy Lim, Joseph Noel, Andrew Chua, Kian Bee Ong, Yan Meng Tan
During the early 1970s, an American pimp, Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), is in Singapore where he provides women for British and American businessmen, but local mobsters soon put Flowers out of business. Flowers is approached by a an American mobster, Eddie Schuman (Peter Bogdanovich), who offers Flowers the job of pimping to provide services for U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore. Complications ensue when Flowers is asked to take compromising pictures.
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Targets 1968 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandy Baron, Mary Jackson, Randy Quaid, Monte Landis, Arthur Peterson
This film is Peter Bogdanovich's first directorial offering. The tension-filled story involves a sniper (Tim O'Kelly) and an aging film star (Boris Karloff) whose appearance at a drive-in theater is the event that triggers the sniper into action. Included in the film is footage from Boris Karloff's 1931 movie "The Criminal Code."
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Texasville 1990 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Annie Potts, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid, Eileen Brennan, William McNamara, Angie Bolling, Pearl Jones
This sequel to "The Last Picture Show" features the same cast of characters who are now middle-aged and enjoying a reunion after 30 years.
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They All Laughed 1981 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter, Ben Gazzara, Colleen Camp, Sean H. Ferrer, Dorothy Stratten, Elizabeth Pena, George Morfogen, Blaine Novak, Patti Hansen
One of Peter Bogdanovich's better productions, this comedy is about the loves and adventures of detectives John Russo (Ben Gazzara) and Charles Rutledge (John Ritter) who fall in love with beautiful women they have been hired to investigate.
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The Thing Called Love 1993  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, K.T. Oslin, Anthony Clark, Webb Wilder, Earl Poole Ball, Deborah Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore
In the last finished film of River Phoenix, he plays James Wright, an aspiring country singer who meets three others–Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis), Kyle Davidson (Dermot Mulroney), and Linda Lue Linden (Sandra Bullock)–who also plan to hit it big in Nashville. They head for the Bluebell Cafe where many have found the way to stardom through the weekly singer contests. In the process love blooms, fades, and blooms again.
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The Trip 1967 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg, Dennis Hopper, Dick Miller, Peter Bogdanovich, Luana Anders, Salli Sachse, Barboura Morris, Judy Lang
Written by Jack Nicholson, this is the story about a TV producer (Peter Fonda) who is on the verge of divorcing his wife (Susan Strasberg) when he decides to experiment with LSD as his way of relieving the stress. His friend John (Bruce Dern) takes Paul to his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad, and Paul enters the world of hallucinogentic drugs. After his trip–involving visions of sex, dancing girls, witches, a torture chamber, and death–Paul believes that he is ready to face the future.
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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women 1968 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Gill Women of Venus
Director: Peter Bogdanovich, Pavel Klushantsev
Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Aldo Romani, Margot Hartman, Peter Bogdanovich, Irene Orton, Pam Helton, Frankie Smith, James David
Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this film began as a 1962 Russian production and was re-worked in 1968. The plot involves confrontation between astronauts visiting Venus who must fend off the gill-women they encounter.
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What's Up, Doc? 1972 G, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke, Michael Murphy, Mabel Albertson, John Hillerman, M. Emmet Walsh, Madeline Kahn
Four suitcases get mixed up, and their owners' lives are changed forever. During the process of retrieving the correct luggage, Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal), a somber musicologist, meets Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand), a dizzy student, who keeps popping back into his life.
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| 1. At Long Last Love (1975)
2. Bella Mafia (1997)
3. Broken English (2007)
4. The Cat's Meow (2001)
5. Daisy Miller (1974)
6. Dedication (2007)
7. Festival in Cannes (2001)
8. Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
9. Hustle (2004)
10. Illegally Yours (1988)
11. The Independent (2000)
12. Infamous (2006)
13. The Last Picture Show (1971)
14. Mask (1985)
15. Mr. Jealousy (1997)
16. Nickelodeon (1976)
17. Noises Off (1992)
18. Opening Night (1977)
19. Paper Moon (1973)
20. Rated X (2000)
21. Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women (1997)
22. Saint Jack (1979)
23. Targets (1968)
24. Texasville (1990)
25. They All Laughed (1981)
26. The Thing Called Love (1993)
27. The Trip (1967)
28. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
aka: Gill Women of Venus
29. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
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