Tag: cybill shepherd
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Texasville (1990)
Befallen by hard times on both sides of the camera, Peter Bogdanovich received an opportunity to revisit a familiar place and he took it. Texasville, the sequel to Bogdanovich’s break-out hit The Last Picture Show, is based on Larry McMurtry’s sequel novel, but the tone and feeling of this picture is a far cry from…
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At Long Last Love (1975)
If Peter Bogdanovich’s Daisy Miller was, as studio executive Frank Yablans put it, a ‘bunt,’ then in his next movie, Bogdanovich, in his own words “tried to hit it over the fence.” At Long Last Love is an homage to the cheerful and engaging comedy musicals of the 1930s, often directed by Ernst Lubitsch or…
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Daisy Miller (1974)
After a buildup of confidence from three straight critical and commercial successes, Peter Bogdanovich felt capable of making a noncommercial kind of movie for his own ego or as an excuse to work with his girlfriend Cybill Shepherd or simply because he was moved by Henry James’ short story. For any one of these reasons…