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Peter Bogdanovich: In Memoriam

Director, film historian, and all around keeper of the flame for Old Hollywood, Peter Bogdanovich was a link between eras. A New Hollywood director with a foot planted in the decades before him. His films reflected his love and admiration of the old masters and showed a mastery all his own. With a career spanning decades, he came out of the gates with some of his most memorable and enduring works. In this tribute to the great director, we present 4 of those iconic films including a special screening for Late Shift at the Grindhouse of his gritty crime thriller, Targets, produced by Roger Corman.

Previous Screenings

PAPER MOON

1973 / USA / Peter Bogdanovich

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

TARGETS

1968 / United States / Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)

In his directorial debut, Peter Bogdanovich weaves two disparate story lines into a terrifying moment of confrontation.

WHAT’S UP DOC?

1972 / USA / Peter Bogdanovich

This hilarious screwball comedy goes a mile a minute wearing it’s cartoony influences on its sleeve in a mad dash with a suitcase mix-up from the ballrooms of the Bristol Hotel to the streets of Downtown San Diego with off the charts chemistry between Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal.

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

1971 / USA / Peter Bogdanovich

The movie that launched Bogdanovich on his way into the stratosphere was also one of the key films of the New Hollywood, set in the early 1950s, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen.