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R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich
R.I.P Peter Bogdanovich. As a filmmaker, I preferred his darker works, like Targets or Saint Jack. His work with Orson Welles is where I first heard of him, because of the book This is Orson Welles. He'd be key in finishing The Other Side of the Wind. His personal life was...human.
R.I.P Peter Bogdanovich -
film related
With The Other Side of the Wind coming out, and me being a (tiny, tiny) producer, before Netflix, thank you very much, it's all things Welles at the moment.
As an early backer of the film I should be getting all kinds of goodies soon. I hope so, anyway. Been reading up on the film. I'm a bit of a Welles fanatic. Own all the films, TV work, and ( Read more... ) -
We are made out of oppositions
"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognise them."
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Welles on a Saturday Morning
I tried to sleep in. It didn't work. Pot of coffee made, I sat down to Orson Welles. Specifically, his Othello. I get...obsessional with certain directors. No detail is too small. It's easy to get lost in the world of Welles. Criterion just put out a definitive edition of his Othello. I've been watching the bonus features. Even his finished works ( Read more... )
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