The best Peter Bogdanovich’s documentary movies on Apple iTunes

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

30/07/1939- 06/01/2022
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939 - January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, and his most critically acclaimed and well-known film is the drama The Last Picture Show (1971). Bogdanovich also directed Targets (1968), What's Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), They All Laughed (1981), Mask (1985), The Cat's Meow (2001), and She's Funny That Way (2014).

Corman's World

Corman's World
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/12/2011
  • Character: Himself - Filmmaker
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.

78/52

78/52
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 13/10/2017
  • Character: Himself
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

Audrey

Audrey
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 30/11/2020
  • Character: Self
An intimate look at Audrey Hepburn's life, with access to exclusive never-before-seen footage from her family's personal collection, providing an unprecedented and insightful view on Audrey, her life and her dreams, aspirations and her everlasting legacy.

Casting By

Casting By
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 09/09/2012
  • Character: Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 06/06/2018
  • Character: Himself
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/09/2015
  • Character: Himself
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

F for Fake

F for Fake
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/09/1973
  • Character: Himself
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/08/2020
  • Character: Self
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 12/12/2014
  • Character: Self - Filmmaker
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-1985), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time - Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time - Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/04/2020
  • Character: Self
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 26/08/2014
  • Character: Himself
The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/06/2012
  • Character: Himself
Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Ford’s cousins, the Feeney’s who tell the story of Ford’s parent’s departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Ford’s return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thornton’s and saw their house being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans. Ford, under the pretense of scouting locations for a movie, gave money to the IRA. We travel to Portland Maine where Ford grew up and went on to become a director in the first bloom of Hollywood. The boy made it good but Ireland was always on his mind.

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