Peter Bogdanovich talks about black & white

[darius595]

Mel Brooks made Young Frankenstein in black and white a few years after this.

[margotdarby]

Dontcha hate color? I hate color. B&W is the sign of a quality movie. Or a film noir. Or a 40s B movie. Whatever.

[TheodorBjork]

Peter Bogdanovich actually, for ONCE, seems like a nice guy here! Flashes of Quincy, but not as bad as he is now...

[directorlog]

God I hated RHPS but I like Bodanovich.

[frisbeehousepiper]

@directorlog he directed the LAST Picture Show

[FetaCheese222]

@directorlog Jesus, that is the first time I'm ever seen anyone confuse Rocky Horror for The Last Picture Show.

[directorlog]

@FetaCheese222 you'll get over it!

[tuxguys]

Questionable use of the word "indigenous" aside, Mel's comments on B&W are somewhat prescient aren't they? "Young Frankenstein" was not too many years in his future...

[PTFAbedeh]

@tuxguys I was just thinking that! Plus, he would go on to produce Lynch's black-and-white film The Elephant Man in 1980.

[BoStevoD]

Jeff Bridges used to look like Brock Lesner...

[Lolmastr]

I only watched this video because it said "Peter Bogdanovich talks about bl..."

I assumed it was Peter Bogdanovich talks about blowing guys"

[swawsome]

hes my directing teacher too. lol i was wondering if anyone posted on something like this.

[czar7474]

@swawsome Does he wear his ascot to class.

[JiffySpook]

'Would you have the nerve, Mel, to have asked to make a movie in Black and White?' Ironic...

[kfag101]

peter was devestated by the ,murder of dorothy stratten!

[czar7474]

Bogdonovich is vapid, like his commentaries, alot of hot air. Never really made a good film, and was pretty marginal in the midst of Scorcese, DePalma, Coppola in the seventies.

[pljfilm]

@czar7474 way to spell his name wrong. He's my directing teacher at uncsa.

[czar7474]

@pljfilm my Bad, As a film historian he has some merit.

[shnoepie1]

@czar7474 Lol, marginal to Scorsese and Depalma? Untill Coppola came along he was the single most important new director of the early 70s. The man had an extraordinary run of movies, from Targets untill Paper Moon. The Last Picture Show is among the absolute best of 70s movies. Silly to say that he was marginal compared to Scorsese, who made only one great picture in that decade (let alone Depalma).

[czar7474]

@shnoepie1 The films you mentioned are his only good ones, everything else he had a hand in was pretty mediocore. Scorsese made two outstanding pictures in the 70's, one of which is arguably one of the finest films from the 70's being TAXI DRIVER and the second MEAN STREETS.

Scorsese is still making good films, where is Bogdonovich now, He hasn't made a decent film since MASK in 1985.

[shnoepie1]

@czar7474 Mean Streets was extremely flawed. Nowhere near being a great film. It has great moments, but overall the film was amateurish and Scorsese hadn't riped yet. I agree that Scorsese is far more consistent, but on the other hand Scorsese has made some mediocre films himself: his post Casino output, Color of Money and his pre-Taxi Driver films.

[born3651]

@shnoepie1 I think you're mistaking flaws with style and maybe production quality. Mean Streets was shot like a street picture, like a Cassavettes picture, or a Maysles Brothers' film, or a Godard film, the purpose was to capture the look, atmosphere, and attitude of a specific time and place, like the old Direct Cinema films of the60's. Scorsese said before the film ever achieved any success he'd hoped it could at least serve as an anthropological study to future generations about the

[shnoepie1]

@czar7474 Anyway, some directors don't need a consistent body of work to prove that they are great filmmakers (they can't all be Kubricks, Allens or Scorseses). Tarantino's post-Jackie Brown output was awefull, but he still remains a genius: he still is the creator of the single most important movie of the last 30 years (maybe rivaled by Raging Bull). The same goes for Coppola, Welles and Bodonovich. Brilliant filmmakers, with inconsistent body of works.

[FetaCheese222]

@shnoepie1 Woody Allen's work is anything but consistent. Also Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds are two (uh, three?) of the best movies of the 00's.

[Tennislover777]

Gosh Peter is handsome. Its ridiculous. Takes out that cig, and lights up.... o so Bogart.

Sexy man. ----> but o what the time does.

[TheJoeyD27]

A salty nut, I would say.

[saltheshoe]

Nut?

[valdezt707]

How dare you Peter talk negatively about Hugh Hefner in your book!

The audacity! the stupidity! you! having an affair with a married woman and blaming Hugh Hefner for her death... Hefner has done nothing but a lucrative business that all men and women have accepted from the beginning.

If they tell you different it's because they are hipocrites and liars...

[SwineForkbeard]

I wonder if this is where Mel Brooks got the idea for Silent Movie.

[push555push]

LOL

[BrianAlanVH]

you mean Young Frankenstein

[KentAllard]

I think you mean Young Frankenstein

[Thosedamnhippies]

Thanks for posting. I was actually lucky enough to meet Peter and get something signed by him at a Bodanovich retrospective in San Francisco. They also had a director's cut of Nickelodeon being shown for the first time in it's intended black and white format.

[zigzagbigbag]

i think meeting him would be an unlucky event.