Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow ); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with Stella Adler (his work with her became the foundation for all he would ever do as an actor and a director).Now, in his new book, Who the Hell’s in It, Bogdanovich draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding of the art to write about the actors he came to know along the way; actors he admired from afar; actors he worked with, directed, befriended. Among Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Frank Sinatra, and James Stewart.Bogdanovich captures—in their words and his—their work, their individual styles, what made them who they were, what gave them their appeal and why they’ve continued to be America’s iconic actors.On Lillian “the first virgin hearth goddess of the screen . . . a valiant and courageous symbol of fortitude and love through all distress.”On Marlon “He challenged himself never to be the same from picture to picture, refusing to become the kind of film star the studio system had invented and thrived upon—the recognizable human commodity each new film was built around . . . The funny thing is that Brando’s charismatic screen persona was vividly apparent despite the multiplicity of his guises . . . Brando always remains recognizable, a star-actor in spite of himself. ”Jerry Lewis to Bogdanovich on the first laugh Lewis ever got “I was five years old. My mom and dad had a tux made—I worked in the borscht circuit with them—and I came out and I sang, ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ the big hit at the time . . . It was 1931, and I stopped the show—naturally—a five-year-old in a tuxedo is not going to stop the show? And I took a bow and my foot slipped and hit one of the floodlights and it exploded and the smoke and the sound scared me so I started to cry. The audience laughed—they were hysterical . . . So I knew I had to get the rest of my laughs the rest of my life, breaking, sitting, falling, spinning.”John Wayne to Bogdanovich, on the early years of Wayne’s career when he was working as a prop “Well, I’ve naturally studied John Ford professionally as well as loving the man. Ever since the first time I walked down his set as a goose-herder in 1927. They needed somebody from the prop department to keep the geese from getting under a fake hill they had for Mother Machree at Fox. I’d been hired because Tom Mix wanted a box seat for the USC football games, and so they promised jobs to Don Williams and myself and a couple of the players. They buried us over in the properties department, and Mr. Ford’s need for a goose-herder just seemed to fit my pistol.”These twenty-six portraits and conversations are unsurpassed in their evocation of a certain kind of great movie star that has vanished. Bogdanovich’s book is a celebration and a farewell.

In this fascinating chronicle of Hollywood and the grand art of making movies, Peter Bogdanovich--director, screenwriter, actor, and critic--interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of Robert Aldrich George Cukor Allan Dwan Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock Chuck Jones Fritz Lang Joseph H. Lewis Sidney Lumet Leo McCartey Otto Preminger Don Siegel Josef von Sternberg Frank Tashlin Edgar G. Ulmer Raoul Walsh

Book by Peter Bogdanovich

This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film Critics' Awards, and some of our most memorable films, among them The Informer (1934), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Quiet Man (1952), The Long Gray Line (1955), and The Wings of Eagles (1957). In addition, the name John Ford was practically synonymous with the great Westerns that came out of Hollywood for many years-- Stagecoach (1939), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), for example. After his death a European newspaper mourned ford as "the creator of the Western," although many of his finest films were far removed from that genre. Combining interviews with John Ford with his own reflections, director Peter Bogdanovich captures both the artist and the man in a highly readable, compact book that will please film lovers and Ford admirers alike. Over a hundred stills are included, along wit hthe most completed filmography yet compiled for John Ford.

A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMSDirector, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows movies. Now, in this unique new book, he shares his passion with a connoisseur's insight and delight by inviting the reader to join him for a year at the movies--fifty-two weeks, fifty-two films, fifty-two reasons to watch. Which films does Peter Bogdanovich call . . ."The most hauntingly chilling, strangely prophetic science-fiction picture ever made."(You'll be treated to it on Halloween)"A scintillatingly directed comedy."(Discover it with someone you love on Valentine's Day)"A bittersweet human comedy of vintage genius [that] only becomes more precious as the years pass."(Ringing in the New Year with it is reason enough to celebrate)With recommendations specific to the seasons and holidays--from sparkling comedies, timeless musicals, landmark foreign films, powerful dramas and thrillers to legendary masterpieces and neglected treasures--Bogdanovich's eclectic cinematic calendar of classics, each available on video, each accompanied by an illuminating essay, and each followed by a list of tie-in recommendations, makes the perfect date for movielovers every week of the year.

Paperbcak,great condition,great book.

Madrid. 20 cm. 146 p. lám. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Colección Arte. Serie Cine', numero coleccion(v. 28). Bogdanovich, Peter 1939-2022. Fritz Lang en América. Traductor, Miguel Marías. 1890-1976 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

Orson Welles è stato l’artista più dirompente e decisivo dall’avvento del cinema sonoro. A ventitré anni sconvolse l’America annunciando alla radio l’invasione della Terra da parte di creature venute da Marte. A venticinque, con un’opera cruciale come Quarto potere, riscrisse la grammatica filmica imponendo tecniche come la profondità di campo, il long-take e il piano sequenza. Da allora la sua carriera fu una lotta incessante tra un talento artistico smisurato e le logiche asfissianti dell’industria cinematografica. Drammaticamente in anticipo sui tempi, visse il resto della sua vita affacciato su un precipizio. Da una parte la vertigine dell’arte, il demone della recitazione, la forza oscura che sprigionava dalle sequenze abbaglianti dei suoi film; dall’altra i mille compromessi, i ruoli svilenti accettati per finanziare l’ennesimo capolavoro, gli spettri della depressione, dell’alcol, del fallimento creativo e umano. E in mezzo a tutto questo, film e opere teatrali che vibrano della potenza dei grandi classici, dall’Orgoglio degli Amberson a Otello, dalla Signora di Shangai all’Infernale Quinlan. Un pomeriggio del 1968, fu proprio Welles a telefonare a Peter Bogdanovich – allora giovane regista, poi diventato autore di prima grandezza – per chiedergli di scrivere insieme a lui il libro-intervista a cui avrebbe affidato la sua verità e il suo nacque così Il cinema secondo Orson Welles. Durante i loro colloqui, che durarono otto anni, tra Parigi, Hollywood, New York, Roma e molte altre città, Welles raccontò per intero la propria carriera, confessando con ironia e disincanto se stesso, la vita trascorsa girovagando da un set all’altro, lo sconfinato amore per il cinema. Lo sguardo vivido e divertito di Orson Welles, l’odore dei sigari che fumava ininterrottamente, la sua vorace imponenza rivivono in un libro che si affianca al Cinema secondo Hitchcock di François Truffaut per la capacità di far parlare il cinema attraverso la viva, insostituibile voce dei suoi maestri. E di raccontare il romanzo di un regista rivoluzionario, eccessivo, impetuoso, che seppe rompere le regole del dramma coniugando lo sguardo sul contemporaneo di Bertolt Brecht all’arte senza tempo di William Shakespeare.

In half-a-century making films, Allan Dwan worked with D. W. Griffith, directed Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson and Shirley Temple, discovered Ida Lupino, and made action pictures like "Suez" and "Sands of Iwo-Jima," In this book, which has a full and detailed filmography, he talks about his life in the movies. The Praeger Film Library is a series of authoritative and readable books on various aspects of the cinema. Each is lavishly illustrated with stills and frame enlargements closely integrated with the text.

Dans quelles circonstances Fritz Lang est-il arrivé à Hollywood ? Comment Raoul Walsh s’est il nourri de son expérience de cow-boy ? Howard Hawks a-t-il vraiment été influencé par Casablanca pour Le Port de l’angoisse ? Comment George Cukof dirigeait-I’m des acteurs ? Quel était le film favori de Léo McCarey ?Auteur phare du Nouvel Hollywood, inépuisable cinéphile, Peter Bogdanovich s’est entretenu depuis ses vingt-et-un ans avec les plus grands noms du cinéma américain. Ce premier tome réunit sept entretiens avec des cinéastes qui ont donné naissance à quelques uns des chefs d’œuvre de l’histoire du cinéma : Rio Bravo, Les Contrebandiers de Moonfleet, Elle et Lui, La Charge fantastique, Indiscrétions, Shanghai Express…D’Allan Dwan (l’un ds grands pionniers, avec D.W Griffith) à George Cukor (qui tourne son dernier film en 1981), c’est une traversée de l’histoire du cinéma américain que nous convie Peter Bogdanovich, dévoilant les coulisses de l’usine a rêves, les secrets de tournage, les rapports de force avec les studios, et les points de vue des auteurs sur chacun de leurs films. Mine d’informations sur l’industrie du cinéma classique hollywoodien, c’est aussi un livre indispensable à tout apprenti cinéaste.

This is a history of the films of Alfred Hitchcock written by Peter Bogdanovich.

"Traduzione di Roberto Buffagni Aldrich / Cukor / Dwan / Hawks / Hitchcock / Jones / Lang / Lewis / Lumet / McCarey / Preminger / Siegel von Sternberg / Tashlin / Ulmer / Walsh “Quando iniziai a fare le mie domande, suppergiù un mese prima del mio ventunesimo compleanno, avevo già studiato recitazione con Stella Adler per quattro anni, avevo partecipato a una quarantina di allestimenti teatrali professionali... Decisi che se davvero volevo imparare a fare dei film, per quel che differiscono dal teatro, dovevo sia vedere i film migliori e più significativi, sia avvicinare gli artisti professionisti che avevano lavorato in quel campo, se possibile osservarli sul lavoro e, certo, interrogarli il più possibile sul mestiere. La mia grande fortuna fu che i migliori cineasti, quelli che avevano dato vita al cinema, erano ancora vivi. Quando terminai la mia serie di interviste, circa dodici anni dopo, ero ormai ero nelle prime file della ‘nuova Hollywood’ degli anni settanta. La mia educazione e il mio apprendistato (in quel periodo, consideravo così tutto quel che facevo) avevano avuto dai maestri e per conto mio avevo imparato il mestiere abbastanza da affermarmi. Ma come mi disse Josef von Sternberg mentre discutevamo i suoi grandi successi degli anni venti e ‘Dopo, però, successero tante cose...’ ” Peter Bogdanovich, tra i più grandi registi, sceneggiatori, critici e attori del Novecento, incontra sedici registi di Hollywood che hanno fatto la storia del cinema mondiale, da George Cukor a Howard Hawks, da Alfred Hitchcock a Sidney Lumet, da Fritz Lang a Don Siegel. Il risultato è un libro mitico, capace di catturare l’essenza dei maestri del grande schermo raccontando il loro lavoro, le loro scelte, lo stile che li ha resi icone immortali, e mostrando perché continuano a esercitare su di noi il loro fascino. “Bogdanovich è uno dei più eleganti scrittori di cinema americani.” The Boston Globe “Un tesoro tutto da scoprire sul cinema e l’arte della regia.” Newsday “Illuminante, racconta artisti che hanno lasciato una traccia profonda a Hollywood e nella nostra storia.” The New Yorker"

Les Maîtres d'Hollywood - volume 2 réunit neuf entretiens menés par Peter Bogdanovich avec quelques-uns des plus grands noms du cinéma américain : Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar G. Ulmer, Otto Preminger, Joseph H. Lewis, Chuck Jones, Don Siegel, Frank Tashlin, Robert Aldrich, Sidney Lumet. Précédé d'une courte introduction, chaque entretien aborde une large variété de sujets : l'histoire personnelle du metteur en scène, son rapport à la technique et à la réalisation, ses thèmes de prédilection, les tournages de films, l'inspiration artistique, le choix des acteurs et les rapports entretenus avec eux, les anecdotes, etc.Un premier volume, avec sept autres entretiens (Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Josef von Sternberg, George Cukor, Leo McCarey, Allan Dwan et Raoul Walsh), paraît en janvier 2018.Né en 1939, Peter Bogdanovich appartient à la génération de cinéastes cinéphiles du "Nouvel Hollywood" qui a régné en maître sur le cinéma américain entre le début et la fin des années 1970. Il est l'auteur de quelques films cultes comme La Dernière séance (1971) ou On s'fait la valise, docteur? (1972). En 2014 est sorti son dernier film, Broadway Therapy.Passionné par l'âge d'or du cinéma classique, il a rencontré et interviewé la plupart des grands cinéastes d'Hollywood, de Ford à Hitchcock.

Dans quelles circonstances Fritz Lang est-il arrivé à Hollywood ? Comment Raoul Walsh s’est-il nourri de son expérience de cowboy ? Howard Hawks a-t-il vraiment été influencé par Casablanca pour Le Port de l'angoisse ? Comment George Cukor dirigeait-il ses acteurs? Quel était le film favori de Leo McCarey ?Auteur phare du Nouvel Hollywood, inépuisable cinéphile, Peter Bogdanovich s’est entretenu depuis ses vingt-et-un ans avec les plus grands noms du cinéma américain. Ce premier tome réunit sept entretiens avec des cinéastes qui ont donné naissance à quelques-uns des chefs-d’œuvre de l’histoire du cinéma : Rio Bravo, Les Contrebandiers de Moonfleet, Elle et lui, La Charge fantastique, Indiscrétions, Shanghaï Express...D’Allan Dwan (l’un des grands pionniers, avec D.W. Griffith) à George Cukor (qui tourne son dernier film en 1981), c’est à une traversée de l’histoire du cinéma américain que nous convie Peter Bogdanovich, dévoilant les coulisses de l’usine à rêves, les secrets de tournage, les rapports de force avec les studios, et les points de vue des créateurs sur chacun de leurs films. Mine d’informations sur l’industrie du cinéma classique hollywoodien, c’est aussi un livre indispensable à tout apprenti cinéaste.

Fritz Lang fue junto a Murnau el más prestigioso representante del expresionismo alemán. Pero al subir Hitler al poder abandonó Alemania para instalarse en EE. UU., donde realizó 22 films. En 1958 volvió a Alemania donde retornó a su antigua filmografía rodando La tumba india y Los crímenes del Dr. Mabuse. Pero fue principalmente en su etapa americana donde Lang al igual que Ford llegó a ser considerado como uno de los «maestros», un clásico que ha legado para el cine un universo de la existencia humana en el que la culpabilidad, el destino de los hombres, la venganza o el medio social dieron lugar a una creación única en la imagen y en el lenguaje cinematográficos.

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Une oeuvre phare, jamais traduite en français, qui nous plonge dans le Hollywood des années 80 et son univers impitoyable.Livre écrit par Peter Bogdanovich au début des années 80, qui relate sa relation avec Dorothy Stratten, jeune actrice et playmate de Playboy, le tournage de son film ET TOUT LE MONDE RIAIT, et l'assassinat tragique de Stratten, à la fin du tournage du film.Une oeuvre phare, jamais traduite en français, qui nous plonge dans le Hollywood des années 80 et son univers impitoyable.