Targets (1968)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood, while a disturbed young man goes on a killing spree.
Starring: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Sandy Baron
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
The Creatress (2019)
Comedy | Drama
Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend. The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
Starring: Lindy Booth, Fran Drescher, Peter Bogdanovich, Kayla Ewell, Dante Basco, Tiana Benjamin
Director: Jason Cook
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018)
Documentary | Short
Features the legendary producer Frank Marshall following a multiyear odyssey as he and a merry band of dedicated young filmmakers, including Peter Bogdanovich, helped Orson shape his final film. Decades later, they finish it.
Starring: Filip Jan Rymsza, Frank Marshall, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Murawski, Michel Legrand
Director: Ryan Suffern
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Comedy | Drama
A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.
Starring: John Huston, Robert Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Oja Kodar, Bob Random, Mercedes McCambridge
Director: Orson Welles
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
Documentary
In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind ,in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.
Starring: Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall, Oja Kodar, Beatrice Welles, Joseph McBride, Steve Ecclesine
Director: Morgan Neville
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Biography | Documentary | History | War
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Robert Osborne
Director: Alexandra Dean
Los Angeles Overnight (2018)
Thriller
A struggling actress inherits a bevy of colorful villains after desperation (with a touch of femme fatale) drives her and her gullible boyfriend to steal big from the Los Angeles underworld.
Starring: Lin Shaye, Sally Kirkland, Peter Bogdanovich, Maria Olsen, Azim Rizk, Camilla Jackson
Director: Michael Chrisoulakis
Mask (1985)
Biography | Drama
A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Starring: Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Laura Dern, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart, Harry Carey Jr., Dennis Burkley, Lawrence Monoson, Ben Piazza
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Noises Off… (1992)
Comedy
A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances.
Starring: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Drama
After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner city school proves too much to resist.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Christian Payton, Dana Eskelson, Fernando López, Casey Lluberes, Michael Gilio, Bernadette Speakes
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Documentary
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Starring: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray
Director: Kent Jones
Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Comedy | Romance
Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he's very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of Lester's slightly wacky current partner Ramona – arrogant best-selling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell's therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brian Kerwin, John Lehr, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Noah Baumbach
She's Funny That Way (2014)
Comedy
A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career.
Starring: Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Illeana Douglas, Graydon Carter, Rhys Ifans, Jake Hoffman
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
The Cat's Meow (2001)
Drama
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
F for Fake / Vérités et mensonges (1973)
Comedy | Documentary
A documentary about fraud and fakery.
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Gary Graver, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Orson Welles
Cold Turkey (2013)
Drama
Available Same Day as Theaters. Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan goes from bad to worse when estranged daughter Nina makes a surprise visit home for the first time in 15 years. Nina clashes with her stepmother Deborah, and sister, Lindsay, while half-brother Jacob tries to keep a massive gambling debt a secret. Meanwhile, family patriarch Poppy has his own dramatic news to share. “Cold Turkey” is a black comedy about how – despite our best efforts – we all eventually turn into our parents. Starring Alicia Witt (“Friday Night Lights”), Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Sonya Walger (“Lost”), Victoria Tennant (“L.A. Story”) and acclaimed writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show”). A FilmBuff Presentation.
Starring: Peter Bogdanovich, Cheryl Hines, Ashton Holmes, Alicia Witt, Sonya Walger, Wilson Bethel
Director: Will Slocombe
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Infamous (2006)
Biography | Crime | Drama
On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Daniel Craigs, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes, Hope Davis
Director: Douglas McGrath
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008)
Documentary
The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, finally breaking into the mainstream with their pivotal contribution to the "American New Wave."
Starring: Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandra Bullock, Richard Donner, Dennis Hopper, László Kovács
Director: James Chressanthis
Abandoned (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to a staff psychiatrist, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Michael Feifer
Paper Moon (1973)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Noble Willingham
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
