In a piece collected in the forthcoming Fractured Mirror book I wrote about Frank Oz and Steve Martin’s beloved show business comedy, featuring two of Eddie Murphy’s best performances.
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To promote the just-launched Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror book we’re running an entry from it on the classic show-biz political satire Wag the Dog.
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2011’s The Artist is a true Forgotbuster, in that made a huge splash at the time of its release but has receded culturally in the ensuing years.
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Mel Brooks and the biggest stars in Hollywood paid loving homage to the era of silent film with 1976’s delightful meta romp Silent Movie.
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Burt Reynolds scored a nifty late in life comeback with 2018’s poignant The Last Movie Star.
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Burt Reynolds is the world’s greatest stuntman in 1978’s Hooper, a wildly entertaining tribute to stuntmen that’s stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham’s deeply personal masterpiece.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s relationship with Polly Platt inspired the clever and insightful 1984 romantic comedy Irreconcilable Differences.
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Time has been both kind and unkind to 1976’s Nickelodeon, a loving tribute to silent film and Birth of a Nation.
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Peter Bogdanovich Month continues with a look at Directed by John Ford, Bogdanovich’s wonderfully masochistic celebration of the films of John Ford, who seems to have only contempt for his young admirer.
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In remembrance of the late Peter Bogdanovich, we are re-running this piece on The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles’ towering final masterpiece and a haunting meditation on the writer-director’s complicated relationship with his protege.
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