It’s Only a Paper Moon: Cherry Red’s El Imprint Celebrates Director Peter Bogdanovich on New Anthology

Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) rose to fame as part of the “New Hollywood” movement of cinematic auteurs.  While these maverick filmmakers shattered conventions and reshaped film to modern sensibilities, many had a deep and abiding love of the medium – and perhaps none more so than Bogdanovich.  The onetime film critic and Museum of Modern Art programmer wrote extensively about Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Howard Hawks; shot The Last Picture Show in black-and-white; and almost singlehandedly resuscitated the screwball comedy genre.  One constant in his filmmaking was his inventive use of…

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