The British-based independent label Cherry Red Records plans to release the four disc set on September 30 featuring music from films by Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles and John Ford.
A successful New Hollywood director, Peter Bogdanovich co-authored the book “This is Orson Welles” and co-starred in and helped complete “The Other Side of the Wind.”
By RAY KELLY Serious movie fans know that before Peter Bogdanovich hit it big with The Last Picture Show, he directed the cult classic Targets with Boris Karloff. But Peter Tonguette’s new book on Bogdanovich is so exhaustive it delves into the footage Bogdanovich shot with Mamie Van Doren to be morphed with a Soviet […]
Well, 2020 has just started and there is already something for Orson Welles fans to look forward to. Peter Tonguette, who wrote the highly informative Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews with His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians back in 2007, will publish Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director this summer. Coming from University Press […]
IT: Chapter 2, the followup to most successful horror movie of all time, arrives in theaters today. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader are the stars, but Wellesians will want to look for a cameo by Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich, who played director Brooks Otterlake in The Other Side of the Wind, again plays a […]
Oscar-nominated director and classic film enthusiast Peter Bogdanovich has recently uploaded more than four dozen five-minute video shorts to YouTube touting various directors, actors and films under the banner Peter Bogdanovich Recommends. Naturally, there is a Peter Bogdanovich Recommends: Orson Welles short, which is with illustrated with scenes from Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The […]
With the kind permission of Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival, and co-founder Tom Luddy, Wellesnet is delighted to present a 30-minute video of the panel discussion that accompanied the North American premiere of The Other Side of the Wind on September 1, 2018. The panel features three original crew members who […]
By RAY KELLY It’s been nearly 50 years since a conversation between Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich about the plight of aging directors led the late filmmaker to embark on The Other Side of Wind. Welles filmed, but was unable to complete, his story of a 70-year-old director (played by John Huston) looking for a comeback […]
By RAY KELLY On a sunny Monday afternoon a week before Christmas, Peter Bogdanovich, Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall gathered in an editing suite at Tribeca West in Los Angeles to view the progress made on the completion of The Other Side of the Wind. As his colleagues arrived, Rymsza explained that editor Bob Murawski […]
The Other Side of the Wind producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza, executive producer and co-star Peter Bogdanovich, editor Bob Murawski and documentary director-producer Morgan Neville (They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead) will take part in an “extended conversation” at the New York Film Festival on September 29. It will be moderated by NYFF […]
In a series of taped interviews, which served as the foundation of the book This Is Orson Welles, the late filmmaker spoke with friend Peter Bogdanovich about the plight of great directors in their later years. Welles, then in his mid 50s, mused there was another decade or so of work ahead of him before he […]
Peter Bogdanovich, who celebrates his 79th birthday today, will be a guest of honor at the prestigious Lumière 2018 Grand Lyon Film Festival in France on October 13-21. The honor comes during a very busy year for the Oscar-nominated filmmaker: A new interview book; the re-release of Saint Jack; the debut of his The Great Buster, […]