Peter Bogdanovich Movies

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel… Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the “godfather” of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival…

Documentary about filmmaker Budd Boetticher.

Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s…

This is the first feature-length documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh. In this ‘memoir,’ Walsh ‘recounts’ his career from the silent film era to the tumultuous 1960s. The documentary makes…

Explore American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution.

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of…

A celebration of the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton, whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era…

Over the course of one afternoon, in six different parts of Los Angeles, six couples connect, reconnect, or fall apart. Love Actually (2003) meets Magnolia (1999).

Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended…

Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he’s mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of…

The Dukes,(Chazz Palminteri and Robert Davi) a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager (Peter Bogdanovich) is…

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.

A glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing the final film of legendary director Orson Welles.

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind ,in itself…

A haunting account of a tormented man who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s…

In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting-used…

The lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema.

Peter is burned out: finishing med school at UCLA, failing the bedside manner class his father teaches, no sleep in days. He spends the night with Bogart, a woman he’s…

This special is a recounting of the top 100 movies of all time, updated from the list of 10 years ago aired in the first AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies.

Based upon Peter Biskind’s book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a…

‘Smiling Through the Apocalypse’ chronicles a man whose editorial instincts produced one of the greatest magazines ever: Harold Hayes, the swinging editor and cultural provocateur of the iconic Esquire Magazine…

“Runnin’ Down A Dream,” a film directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich, is the story of one of America’s great rock and roll bands told as never before.

A newly married couple try to build their social life.

After years of futile struggle, would-be-famous actress PRISCILLA ANDERS heads for a bitter end to her stay in L.A., until one fateful morning at the diner where she waitresses. Overhearing…