| Noises Off, Lights Down:
A Tribute to the Picture Shows of Peter Bogdanovich
This series is an Aero Theatre Exclusive!
Like his mentor Howard Hawks, Peter Bogdanovich has made a career of
creating intelligent, varied entertainments that have two things in common: a love of
humanity and a deep sense of the craft of film. As a director Bogdanovich deftly moves
from one genre to another, honing a style of long takes and classical compositions that
prioritize story and performance. Like Jean Renoir, Bogdanovich knows that everyone has
his or her reasons, and the empathy with which he views his often-troubled characters
makes his films timeless. Please join us for a two-night tribute to the director, in which
we will screen double features of the Bogdanovich classics NOISES OFF and
THEY ALL LAUGHED, and SAINT JACK and DAISY
MILLER.
Thursday, March 18 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: NOISES
OFF..., 1992, Disney, 101 min. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. One of the funniest films
of the last 20 years! A director (Michael Caine) tries to get a group of bumbling actors
ready for a stage production in which one disaster follows another. Peter Bogdanovich's
adaptation of Michael Frayn's stage farce features a stellar cast including John Ritter,
Denholm Elliott, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve and Marilu Henner.
THEY ALL LAUGHED, 1981, HBO Films, 115 min. Peter
Bogdanovich uses the private-eye genre as a vehicle to deliver deeply romantic insights
about love, marriage and regret. John Ritter and Ben Gazzara work for the Odyssey
Detective Agency, a firm where the investigators are more concerned with their own
complicated love lives than with solving any cases. Audrey Hepburn and Dorothy Stratten
co-star in this hilarious ensemble dramedy, a film that Quentin Tarantino declared one of
the 10 greatest ever made. Buy
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Friday, March 19 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: SAINT
JACK, 1979, Concorde-New Horizon, 112 min. One of director Peter
Bogdanovich’s best and most underrated films is adapted from the Paul Theroux novel
and features Ben Gazzara as an easygoing, expatriate American pimp in Vietnam-era
Singapore. Exceptionally authentic location atmosphere highlights this fascinating
character study. With Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, George Lazenby.
DAISY MILLER, 1974, Paramount, 91 min. Dir. Peter
Bogdanovich. Cybill Shepherd plays the title character, an American making her way through
European society in the late 1800s, in this beautifully mounted Henry James adaptation. Buy Tickets
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