Peter Bogdanovich

...became a fierce advocate on Welles's behalf. He pointed out, and rightly so, that while the story may have come from Mankiewicz, the writing was not the really special thing about Citizen Kane. It was Welles who came up with the...

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...Falstaff in "Chimes of Midnight." "I learned quite a bit of intimate stuff about Orson and what he was like as a father," says director Peter Bogdanovich, a friend of Welles' who wrote often about him. "None of it surprised me; it all...

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Ford has further influenced directors as diverse as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar...

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...a nudge at times. When he was approached for the part of Welles in "RKO 281," Schreiber hesitated at playing the monumental Hollywood figure and contacted, among others, director and Welles friend Peter Bogdanovich. "He made the...

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...to a short-lived TV series, also titled Between the Lines. Filmmakers who made personal appearances at the Welles Cinema include Peter Bogdanovich, Edward Dmytryk, Ed Emshwiller, Jean Eustache, Gary Graver, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jim McBride,...

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...the Wind. I hear it has a bunch of people playing Welles. John Huston plays him at an older age. Peter Bogdanovich plays him at a younger age. It's his last unfinished film. I don't know where it is, but I haven't met anyone who has seen...

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...of The March of Time newsreels. Orson Welles explained to Peter Bogdanovich about the writers working separately by saying, "I left him on his own finally, because we'd started to waste too much time haggling. So, after mutual agreements on...

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...controversy over who wrote what. (Pauline Kael attributed ''Kane''s screenplay to Mankiewicz in an essay for which she did not interview Welles and has since been hotly disputed by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich.) Much debate has centered around...

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...nothing in stock at Western would fit me, so I was stuck with it. " Welles also told Bogdanovich that the scene he felt was most effective was actually based on hunger. "Our best crowd scene was a shot where all the massed forces of...

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