Movie Details
| Title: | One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film | |
| Director: | Bill Teck | |
| Year: | 2014 | |
| Genre: | Documentary | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.16.25 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.16.25 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2025 This is a documentary about Peter Bogdanovich's career focusing on the making of They All Laughed, his love affair with Dorothy Stratten, and her murder. It talks to just about everyone you'd want to hear from and tells the story in a serviceable way. The interviews lack some polish in sound and lighting though which gives it an amateurish look. I can kinda see why this just played some festivals then landed online. I didn't know it existed until I was looking at trivia for They All Laughed and saw this referenced. I was already pretty familiar with Stratten's murder. Bob Fosse made Star 80 about it (which I remember liking and being affected by the ending similar to Looking for Mr. Goodbar) , it's come up in just about anything having to do with Bogdanovich, he wrote a book about it (which I haven't read). So mostly I wanted to see this for insights about the movie They All Laughed. I was surprised to see that it was even more autobiographical than I thought. Of course Bogdanovich had a long-running relationship with Colleen Camp. Of course he also had a fling with Patti Hansen. The only actress he hadn't "known" was Audrey Hepburn but Ben Gazarra beat him to it! I saw that it's his real kids playing Gazarra's kids but didn't know all their dialogue was basically taken from real life, replacing "Colleen" with "Christy" and whatnot. So Gazarra's playing Bogdanovich, John Ritter's playing Bogdanovich, and pretty much all the women are playing themselves. I did get one mystery sort-of solved. Blaine Novak was Bogdanovich's personal friend. Someone here mentions he was a distributor but mostly a friend. It's also mentioned they had a falling out during Bogdanovich's financial and career suicide, so maybe that's why he hasn't done more work or been more visible? Still somewhat mysterious because he's really good in the movie, but also the part was written for him and he's likely mostly being himself so he's really set up for success, as they all were. There was one other scene which I really liked in this doc and that's that you get to (quickly) see the actual index card reviews! The reviews that Bogdanovich kept for (what he says) 19 years. I thought he told me 17 when I asked him in person long ago but I could be wrong. Anyway, for all I've heard about them I never actually put eyes on them before. There were a lot! Maybe more than 3200? Probably. If I'm brutally honest with myself, this journal has been on casual mode for like 15 years and I sure as shit haven't made The Last Picture Show nor will I. So it's not a competition but it is an inspiration and it's cool to actually see on video. |
