Screening Times: Thu, May 4 @ 9:30pm, Fri, May 5 @ 3pm There may be no more iconic sequence in the history of cinema than the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece Psycho. In 78/52, Hitchcock historians, horror aficionados, filmmakers, critics and actors—from Peter Bogdanovich and Guillermo del Toro to Elijah Wood—gleefully pick apart […]
Screening Time – Sunday, Dec 6 @1:15pm 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. Ryan O’Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film […]
Screening Time – Sunday, Dec 6 @ 3:30pm I didn’t see Bogdanovich’s first film, Targets, but The Last Picture Show indicates that Bogdanovich, the movie critic, had already taken Jack Valenti’s advice when, last winter, the film industry spokesman described critics as physicians who should heal themselves—by making movies—if they wanted to be taken seriously […]
Remaining Screenings: Fri, Nov 27 @ 5pm 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 to produce the mythical book “Hitchcock-Truffaut” — this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and […]
Peter Bogdanovich speaks with moderator Ben Mankiewicz before the screening of his brilliant classic film The Last Picture Show during the TCM Film Festival screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto on March 31, 2012. In this clip, he discusses how is was able to cast Ben Johnson in his Academy Award winning role.
Peter Bogdanovich speaks with moderator Ben Mankiewicz before the screening of his brilliant classic film The Last Picture Show during the TCM Film Festival screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto on March 31, 2012. In this clip, he discusses meeting & casting Cybill Shepherd in the film.
Hosted by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz special guest acclaimed filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
from indiewire by Peter Bogdanovich “How do you thank someone for a million laughs?” With the passing of Blake Edwards, one of the very last survivors of the golden age of pictures has gone. At 88, he had seen the whole parade: his grandfather was a silent film director, his father was in the business, […]
