TARGETS

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Kingston, New York, 1939), a fanatic film lover and passionate admirer of the Nouvelle Vague, during the 1960s wrote books and made documentaries about Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, Ford and Lang. He then became a film director and one of the best known authors of New Hollywood, directing films like The Last Picture Show (1971), What’s Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973) and Nickelodeon (1976). In the 1980s he returned to success with Mask (1985) and in 1990 he realized Texasville, sequel of Last Pictures Show 20 years after. In the 1990s he continued to alternate works as a film critic and as a director, realizing above all TV movies.

FILMOGRAFIA

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Woman (1968), Targets (Bersagli, 1968), The Last Picture Show (L’ultimo spettacolo, 1971), Directed by John Ford (doc., 1971-2006), What’s Up, Doc? (Ma papà ti manda sola?, 1972), Paper Moon (id., 1973), Daisy Miller (id., 1974), At Long Last Love (Finalmente arrivò l’amore, 1975), Nickelodeon (Vecchia America, 1976), They All Laughed (…e tutti risero, 1981), Mask (Dietro la maschera, 1985), Texasville (id., 1990), Noises Off… (Rumori fuori scena, 1992), The Thing Called Love (Quella cosa chiamata amore, 1993), The Cat’s Meow (Hollywood Confidential, 2001), The Mystery of Natalie Wood (tv, 2004).