Hammer!!!!!!!!!!!

I do hope for a Bruce McGill cameo in the first episode, but other than that I hope it just completely does its own thing.

But he’s the worst one and it’s not even close

This could end up being his last interview ever

Why the fuck do you have “Subscribe to our newsletter!” on Saget’s picture? What is wrong with you people?!? (And, no, you don’t need to explain it with a slideshow.)

“Shoot to Kill”  from 1988 is a good one. He plays an action lead facing off against Clancy Brown in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

Not that I ever need an excuse, but this is a good time to rewatch Sneakers. 

He also directed Ghost Dad!

Once again, Roger Corman and his talent incubator.

I definitely put down Easy Riders, Raging Bulls with the strong implication that Polly Platt was responsible for at least half of his success.

His flops aren’t that interesting IMO. Shepard murders Daisy Miller, At Long Last Love is a mess, and the same with Nickelodeon. He should have relied more on other scriptwriters IMO. He didn’t write Paper Moon, and I doubt he really wrote much if any of Last Picture Show, despite having a credit. Who would rewrite…

Boy later begins relationship with Playboy playmate who is brutally murdered. Boy then pays for playmate’s 13-year old sister’s education and marries her when she’s 20 and he’s in his late forties. It’s a tale as old as time.

It does give credence to the theory that Polly Platt was the smarter one in the family, as when he left her his talent disappeared. Reading this I am also reminded of the underrated Drew Barrymore comedy Irreconcilable Differences in which a character played by Ryan O’Neil and is obviously based on Bogdanovich is…

He could have been the kind of director his ego thought he was if he had kept his dick in his pants for a minute and not been an utter asshole to Polly Platt. Reading his obit was like stepping back in time and seeing a long list of blown opportunities. But he also went through hell when his girlfriend was murdered…

I know this was rushed for copy but:

The tale of his brief, aborted involvement in the sorta-Leone film Giu La Testa/Fistful Of Dynamite is quite amusing. Leone wanted to call the film “Duck You Sucker” (Giu La Testa means ‘lower your head) and he kept insisting to Bogdanovich that the phrase was a really widespread, common idiom. I’m sure the story has…

I like some of his films very much, but he’s much more important as a film historian than a director. 

Gonna take this comment section as an opportunity to recommend an exhaustive, fascinating podcast series on Bogndanovich’s ex-wife, Polly Platt. It covers her collaboration with Bogdanovich, his affair, their ongoing involvement afterward, their collaboration with Orson Welles, and lots more. It’s great stuff.

I think he really needed Polly Platt to guide him. She was every bit as brilliant as he was.