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John Patterson was born on 4 April 1940 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Sopranos (1999), Independence (1987) and The Rockford Files (1974). He was married to Casey Kelley. He died on 7 February 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Funhouse (2000) 10/10
- Whitecaps (2002) 10/10
- Employee of the Month (2001) 10/10
- Army of One (2001) 10/10
- I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano (1999) 10/10
- All Due Respect (2004) 10/10
- Marco Polo (2004) 9/10
- Where's Johnny? (2004) 9/10
- Meadowlands (1999) 9/10
- Watching Too Much Television (2002) 8/10
- No Show (2002) 8/10
- Bust-Out (2000) 8/10
- The Happy Wanderer (2000) 8/10
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Timothy Van Patten was born on 10 June 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Boardwalk Empire (2010), The Sopranos (1999) and The Pacific (2010). He has been married to Wendy Susan Rossmeyer since 23 May 1996. They have three children.- Long Term Parking (2004) 10/10
- Whoever Did This (2002) 10/10
- Soprano Home Movies (2007) 10/10
- Two Tonys (2004) 10/10
- Members Only (2006) 10/10
- Cold Stones (2006) 9/10
- The Second Coming (2007) 9/10
- Christopher (2002) 9/10
- Amour Fou (2001) 9/10
- Live Free or Die (2006) 9/10
- Unidentified Black Males (2004) 9/10
- Proshai, Livushka (2001) 9/10
- Big Girls Don't Cry (2000) 9/10
- Commendatori (2000) 9/10
- The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti 9/10
- Calling All Cars (2002) 8/10
- Chasing It (2007) 8/10
- Johnny Cakes (2006) 8/10
- House Arrest (2000) 8/10
- Second Opinion (2001) 8/10
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Allen Coulter is an American television and film director, credited with a number of successful television programs. He has directed two feature films, Hollywoodland, a film regarding the questionable death of George Reeves starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, and Ben Affleck, and the 2010 film Remember Me. Coulter was born in College Station, Texas. He went on to study theater direction at the University of Texas, after which he moved to New York to pursue his career in film.- The Test Dream (2004) 10/10
- The Knight in White Satin Armor (2000) 10/10
- College (1999) 9/10
- D-Girl (2000) 10/10
- Irregular Around the Margins (2004) 10/10
- Isabella (1999) 9/10
- For All Debts Public and Private (2002) 9/10
- University (2001) 9/10
- Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood (2001) 9/10
- Full Leather Jacket (2000) 9/10
- Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office (2000) 9/10
- He Is Risen (2001) 8/10
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Alan Taylor is an American film and television director from San Francisco known for directing episodes of HBO shows such as The Sopranos, Deadwood, Game of Thrones, and Sex in the City. He directed the feature films Thor: The Dark World, Palookaville, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Many Saints of Newark, and Terminator Genisys.- The Blue Comet (2007) 10/10
- Stage 5 (2007) 10/10
- The Strong, Silent Type (2002) 10/10
- Kennedy and Heidi (2007) 9/10
- Pax Soprana (1999) 9/10
- The Ride (2006) 9/10
- The Fleshy Part of the Thigh (2006) 9/10
- Rat Pack (2004) 9/10
- Kaisha (2006) 8/10
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Jack Bender was born on 25 September 1949 in the USA. He is a producer and director, known for Lost (2004), From (2022) and Alias (2001). He is married to Laura Owens. They have two children.- Mayham (2006) 10/10
- To Save Us All from Satan's Power (2001) 10/10
- The Weight (2002) 9/10
- Another Toothpick (2001) 9/10
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Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy (Wilson), a restaurant hostess, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker. He is of Italian (father) and English, Dutch, and Irish (mother) descent. He became interested in acting during his last year of high school. After graduating, he moved to Manhattan to study acting with John Strasberg. He began writing and performing original theatre pieces with fellow actor/writer Mark Boone Junior. This led to his being cast in his first lead role in Parting Glances (1986). Since then, he has worked with many of the top filmmakers in Hollywood, including Quentin Tarantino, Jerry Bruckheimer, and The Coen Brothers. He is a highly respected actor.- Pine Barrens (2001) 10/10
- Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request (2006) 10/10
- Everybody Hurts (2002) 9/10
- In Camelot (2004) 8/10
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- Nobody Knows Anything (1999) 9/10
- Pie-o-My (2002) 9/10
- Fortunate Son (2001) 8/10
- From Where to Eternity (2000) 8/10
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Born in Mt. Vernon, New York, and raised in New Jersey, David Chase (born David DeCesare) dreamed of being a star drummer in a rock band! He spent many years playing drums and bass trying to be part of a successful rock band in the 1960s East Coast music scene. He also loved movies, such as The Public Enemy (1931) with James Cagney and TV shows like The Untouchables (1959) with Robert Stack. When not making music, he watched 1960s' Hollywood and foreign films avidly. After his music career ended, he got the inspiration to buy a movie camera and make his own movies. He studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and later the graduate film program at Stanford University. He began writing for network TV drama programs in the early 1970s. He eventually became a writer and producer on the classic NBC detective show The Rockford Files (1974) with James Garner. While on "Rockford", he penned many memorable episodes and pieces of dialog. He won his first Emmy in 1978, the year "Rockford" won the award for Best Dramatic Series. Many biographies incorrectly state that Chase won his first Emmy for writing the acclaimed TV movie, Off the Minnesota Strip (1980). Although it is a sensitive and well observed story about a young runaway trying to make sense of her life after being returned to her Midwestern family from a life of prostitution in New York City, Chase actually won his second Emmy (and a Writer's Guild Award) for that project. He then spent the 1980s and early 1990s getting paid for writing various TV scripts while writing feature film projects that never got produced. He also began directing his TV scripts whenever possible. He often told people stories about the troubled relationship he shared back in New Jersey with his mother. Encouraged to write about it, he found a way to combine a story about his mother with a mob story and a story about psychotherapy, which Chase had also began during this time. This intersection of ideas and themes led Chase to write the landmark pilot script to a show that the Fox network developed, then passed on shooting. HBO then decided to roll the dice with Chase on this odd mixture of mother/son conflict, mobster danger and insecurities about psychological therapy. The result: The Sopranos (1999). Everybody connected with the project thought they would film a pilot episode, it would not go to series and that would be that. It has since gone on to become one of the most successful shows to ever come out of a cable network. Chase and his crew have collected Emmy, Golden Globe, Writer's Guild and Director's Guild Awards for the show. In terms of impact and subject matter, it has been compared to The Godfather (1972). Chase vows to get his feature film projects off the ground, as soon as "The Sopranos" ends its run.- Made in America (2007) 10/10
- Pilot (1999) 9/10
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Daniel Attias won the DGA's 2009 best drama directing award for The Wire (2002) (episode: "Transitions"). He has also been nominated three other times in that category for episodes of The Sopranos (1999) ("46 Long"), Six Feet Under (2001) ("Back to the Garden"), and "Homeland" (2015)_ ("13 Hours in Islamabad:). In both 2006 and 2008, he was nominated for Emmy Awards for comedy directing for Entourage (2004) (episodes: "Oh Mandy," and "No Cannes Do").
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley, he studied acting in Los Angeles for three years before enrolling at UCLA where he received an MFA in film production. He is a graduate of the DGA's Assistant Directors Training Program and has worked as an assistant director for Steven Spielberg, Francis Coppola, Wim Wenders and Samuel Fuller.- 46 Long (1999) 9/10
- Mergers and Acquisitions (2002) 8/10
- The Telltale Moozadell (2001) 8/10
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Nick attended SUNY Purchase with an interest in sound design, music and movies. It was there he met a group of filmmakers, producers, and actors that he would work with for the next decade; producer Bob Gosse, director Hal Hartley; actors Edie Falco, Paul Schulze, Saul Stein, Adam Trese, all of whom Nick would use in his films.
After SUNY, Nick worked on commercials and features in NYC and wrote a few scripts that caught some attention around NYC. In the early 1990's Nick's SUNY friend, Bob Gosse and Larry Meistrich started The Shooting Gallery in downtown NY to be a home for independent filmmakers. With them, Nick would make Laws of Gravity (1992) starring Edie Falco, Adam Trese, and Paul Shulze - heralding a return of New York City cinema verité, for the first time since Lumet and Scorsese in the 1970's.
From there, Nick made New Jersey Drive (1995) starring Shar-Ron Corley, Gabriel Cassius, Saul Stein, and Donald Faison. Spike Lee, and his company; 40 Acres and A Mule, produced. Nick received Independent Spirit Award nominations for best director on both the critically acclaimed, Laws of Gravity and New Jersey Drive. New Jersey Drive would also receive the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1995 along with a nomination and win at the Torino and Berlin festivals.
Next, Nick directed the feature, Illtown, starring Michael Rapaport, Lili Taylor, Adam Trese, Kevin Corrigan, Angela Featherstone, Tony Danza, Isaac Hayes, Paul Schulze, Saul Stein. Of his third, and most experimental feature, Nick told the Village Voice: "The mood and tempo of Illtown express what I felt like at the time. I had to make it to come out the other end. It was incredibly hard, but it was really satisfying working on a more intimate scale again." Former NYC mayor, Ed Koch is claimed to have said of Illtown, "It's like a Picasso. You don't always understand it, but you know it's a masterpiece"
In 1995, after a screening of Laws of Gravity, Nick was approached by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson to create with them a look and tone for their new series for NBC; Homicide; Life on the Street. Nick would in turn, direct the pilot for the series and subsequent episodes. In 1997, Nick would again collaborate with Fontana in the creation of his new series, Oz, for HBO.
Following Oz, Nick, now deeply ensconced in the world of television - a place he felt comfortable to express his ideas and flourish, found himself on the crest of the golden age of television with the explosion of cable. He has directed some of the best episodic television of the past two decades and enjoyed close collaborative relationships with the creators of Chicago P.D. along with countless others. Nick, a prolific episodic director, recently inspired by the wealth of up-and-coming artists, will produce television and bring projects through his company, Eidophusikan Productions.- Denial, Anger, Acceptance (1999) 10/10
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Terence Winter was born on 2 October 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Sopranos (1999), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Boardwalk Empire (2010). He is married to Rachel Winter. They have two children.- Walk Like a Man (2007) 10/10
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David Nutter was born in 1960 in the USA. He is a director and producer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), The Pacific (2010) and Space: Above and Beyond (1995). He was previously married to Birgit Nutter.- Join the Club (2006) 10/10
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Jim is a multiple Emmy Award nominee who is equally adept at both comedy and drama. He has directed a vast array of cable and broadcast series, from ABC's Desperate Housewives to HBO's groundbreaking series The Sopranos. Jim has also been the Executive Producing Director for two long-running dramatic series: ABC's Ugly Betty and CBS's Judging Amy. He has directed nine pilots in his career, of which six have been picked up to series.
After graduating from New York University Graduate Film School with a Masters of Fine Arts Jim worked as a cinematographer in New York.
He won the Hong Kong award for best cinematography for his work on An Autumn's Tale. He also photographed the 1988 film Tokyo Pop and the feature film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As a cinematographer on the acclaimed television show Northern Exposure, Jim got his first directing gig, for which he earned a DGA award nomination for the episode "Jules & Joel".
In the fifteen years since, Jim has directed numerous pilots including Dangerous Minds, and To Have and To Hold, as well as numerous episodics such as The Sopranos, ER, Law & Order, House, and Desperate Housewives, to name a few.
In addition to directing, Jim has also worked as an Executive Producer on Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Ugly Betty, To Have and To Hold, and Dangerous Minds several of which have garnered various awards, including 2 Emmy nods and 1 Golden Globe win.
Jim is also a well known documentary film maker. He helped make the film The Man From Hope which followed Bill and Hilary Clinton through the 1992 campaign and was showcased at the Democratic Convention that year and later heralded as a strategic aspect of Bill Clinton's victory in the election. This past November, Jim traveled to central India to document the 50th anniversary of the East West Gathering.
He is married to actress Annie Potts with whom he has 3 children, Clay, Doc and Harry.- Eloise (2002) 9/10
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When young he lived with his four brothers and sisters in a council house in Newcastle Upon Tyne then when 14 the family moved to Thornyburn near Bellingham where he made his first film, 'Redheugh'. He qualified in Newcastle as a music teacher and played in a band, 'The Gasboard' with Brian Ferry before going to London to study music for 3 years and played with The People Band who recorded one album which was produced by Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts and later made a cameo appearance in the film Stormy Monday as The krakow Jazz Ensemble. In the early 70 s he joined an avant garde theatre group -The People Show as a musician but soon found himself lured into acting and spent the next 10 years touring the world earning great success and critical acclaim. Mike left the show in 1980 to concentrate on writing and directing and formed his own theatre company The Mike Figgis Group. He crafted multimedia productions which incorporated an extensive use of film. Among his early projects were Redhugh, Slow Fade and Animals of the City which won awards for the innovative blend of live action with music and film. Redhugh caught the eye of Channel 4 which financed his first feature =The House. His next film was Stormy Monday he wrote, directed and scored and which advanced him into full length features. He next made his debut in American films with Internal Affairs which he directed and co scored, He next coaxed Kim Novak out of retirement to star in Liebestraum which he directed and scored. A few films down the line he wrote, directed and scored One Night Stand which won Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival- Cold Cuts (2004) 9/10
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Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series. His first feature film, Once Were Warriors (1994), won the PEN First Book Award.- Toodle-Fucking-Oo (2000) 9/10
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Rodrigo García was born on 24 August 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a producer and writer, known for Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child (2009) and In Treatment (2008).- All Happy Families (2004) 9/10
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Lorraine Senna was born on 3 May 1950. She is a director and assistant director, known for Somewhere in Time (1980), Babylon 5 (1993) and Paradise, Texas (2006).- Down Neck (1999) 9/10
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Born near Windsor, England, Steve became an oil painter, photographer and printer, graduating in Fine Art at Leeds University. He then joined ground-breaking British experimental theatre company Impact Theatre Cooperative as an actor. For the next six years Steve appeared in thirteen original shows which toured throughout the UK and Europe. When Impact disbanded Steve went on to write, produce, direct and design a dozen new shows for his own theatre company which performed in Britain and around the world. Retrospectives of his work were staged at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
In recognition of his work in theatre, Steve was selected for the BBC Drama Director's Course and was trained at the Television Centre in Shepherds Bush, London to direct for the screen in multi camera, single camera, video and film. He went on to direct for UK ratings leaders "EastEnders", "Emmerdale", "Casualty" and "The Bill" before relocating to New York. His first job in the US was for Sidney Lumet on his TV courtroom series "100 Centre Street" starring Alan Arkin. Sidney wanted to make television drama the way he'd done it live in the 1950s and Steve was hired because of his BBC training and experience in that style. Following many episodes of the "Law & Order" franchise in New York for Dick Wolf, Steve began to work for HBO on "The Wire" in Baltimore and then "The Sopranos", "Rome", "Carnivale" and "Big Love". He directed the pilot of "The Tudors" in Dublin starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and was nominated for a 2006 WGA Award for his writing on "Deadwood" which he also directed. He has produced and directed many pilots around the world including "Dracula" for NBC shot entirely in Budapest.
He directed the Screen Gems motion picture "Obsessed" starring Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba which opened at number one in the US box office.
In 2010, Steve won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work on the Season 4 finale of Showtime's "Dexter".- Moe n' Joe (2006) 8/10
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Peter Bogdanovich was conceived in Europe but born in Kingston, New York. He is the son of immigrants fleeing the Nazis, Herma (Robinson) and Borislav Bogdanovich, a painter and pianist. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Christian, and his mother was from a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. Peter originally was an actor in the 1950s, studying his craft with legendary acting teacher Stella Adler and appearing on television and in summer stock. In the early 1960s he achieved notoriety for programming movies at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An obsessive cinema-goer, sometimes seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich prominently showcased the work of American directors such as John Ford, about whom he subsequently wrote a book based on the notes he had produced for the MOMA retrospective of the director, and the then-underappreciated Howard Hawks. Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of American cinema as Allan Dwan.
Bogdanovich was influenced by the French critics of the 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinema, especially critic-turned-director François Truffaut. Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire Magazine. In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinema critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by making their own films, Bogdanovich became a director. Working for low-budget schlock-meister Roger Corman, Bogdanovich directed the critically praised Targets (1968) and the not-so-critically praised Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), a film best forgotten.
Turning back to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with the legendary Orson Welles while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols' film adaptation of Catch-22 (1970) from the novel by Joseph Heller. Subsequently, Bogdanovich has played a major role in elucidating Welles and his career with his writings on the great actor-director, most notably his book "This is Orson Welles" (1992). He has steadily produced invaluable books about the cinema, especially "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors," an indispensable tome that establishes Bogdanovich, along with Kevin Brownlow, as one of the premier English-language chroniclers of cinema.
The 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by a critics as a Wellesian wunderkind when his most famous film, The Last Picture Show (1971) was released. The film received eight Academy Award nominations, including Bogdanovich as Best Director, and won two of them, for Cloris Leachman and "John Ford Stock Company" veteran Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich, who had cast 19-year-old model Cybill Shepherd in a major role in the film, fell in love with the young beauty, an affair that eventually led to his divorce from the film's set designer Polly Platt, his longtime artistic collaborator and the mother of his two children.
Bogdanovich followed up The Last Picture Show (1971) with a major hit, What's Up, Doc? (1972), a screwball comedy heavily indebted to Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), starring Barbra Streisand and 'Ryan O'Neal'. Despite his reliance on homage to bygone cinema, Bogdanovich had solidified his status as one of a new breed of A-list directors that included Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, with whom he formed The Directors Company. The Directors Company was a generous production deal with Paramount Pictures that essentially gave the directors carte blanche if they kept within strict budget limitations. It was through this entity that Bogdanovich's next big hit, the critically praised Paper Moon (1973), was produced.
Paper Moon (1973), a Depression-era comedy starring Ryan O'Neal that won his ten-year-old daughter Tatum O'Neal an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved to be the highwater mark of Bogdanovich's career. Forced to share the profits with his fellow directors, Bogdanovich became dissatisfied with the arrangement. The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more films, Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed The Conversation (1974) which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture of 1974 and garnered Coppola an Oscar nod for Best Director, and Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974), a film that had a quite different critical reception.
An adaptation of the Henry James novella, Daisy Miller (1974) spelled the beginning of the end of Bogdanovich's career as a popular, critically acclaimed director. The film, which starred Bogdanovich's lover Cybill Shepherd as the title character, was savaged by critics and was a flop at the box office. Bogdanovich's follow-up, At Long Last Love (1975), a filming of the Cole Porter musical starring Cybill Shepherd, was derided by some critics as one of the worst films ever made, noted as such in Harry Medved and Michael Medved's book "The Golden Turkey Awards: Nominees and Winners, the Worst Achievements in Hollywood History" (1980). The film also was a box office bomb despite featuring Burt Reynolds, a hotly burning star who would achieve super-nova status at the end of the 1970s.
Bogdanovich insisted on filming the musical numbers for At Long Last Love (1975) live, a process not used since the early days of the talkies, when sound engineer Douglas Shearer developed lip-synching at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The decision was widely ridiculed, as none of the leading actors were known for their singing abilities (Bogdanovich himself had produced a critically panned album of Cybill Shepherd singing Cole Porter songs in 1974). The public perception of Bogdanovich became that of an arrogant director hamstrung by his own hubris.
Trying to recapture the lightning in the bottle that was his early success, Bogdanovich once again turned to the past, his own and that of cinema, with Nickelodeon (1976). The film, a comedy recounting the earliest days of the motion picture industry, reunited Ryan O'Neal and 'Tatum O'Neal' from his last hit, Paper Moon (1973) with Burt Reynolds. Counseled not to use the unpopular (with both audiences and critics) Cybill Shepherd in the film, Bogdanovich instead used newcomer Jane Hitchcock as the film's ingénue. Unfortunately, the magic of Paper Moon (1973) was not be repeated and the film died at the box office. Jane Hitchcock, Bogdanovich's discovery, would make only one more film before calling it quits.
After a three-year hiatus, Bogdanovich returned with the critically and financially underwhelming Saint Jack (1979) for Hugh Hefner's Playboy Productions Inc. Bogdanovich's long affair with Cybill Shepherd had ended in 1978, but the production deal making Hugh Hefner the film's producer was part of the settlement of a lawsuit Shepherd had filed against Hefner for publishing nude photos of her pirated from a print of The Last Picture Show (1971) in Playboy Magazine. Bogdanovich then launched the film that would be his career Waterloo, They All Laughed (1981), a low-budget ensemble comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and the 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Dorothy Stratten. During the filming of the picture, Bogdanovich fell in love with Stratten, who was married to an emotionally unstable hustler, Paul Snider, who relied on her financially. Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich, and when she told Snider she was leaving him, he shot and killed her, then committed suicide.
They All Laughed (1981) could not attract a distributor due to the negative publicity surrounding the Stratten murder, despite it being one of the few films made by the legendary Audrey Hepburn after her provisional retirement in 1967 (the film would prove to be Hepburn's last starring role in a theatrically released motion picture). The heartbroken Bogdanovich bought the rights to the negative so that it would be seen by the public, but the film had a limited release, garnered weak reviews and cost Bogdanovich millions of dollars, driving the emotionally devastated director into bankruptcy.
Bogdanovich turned back to his first avocation, writing, to pen a memoir of his dead love, "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten (1960-1980)" that was published in 1984. The book was a riposte to Teresa Carpenter's "Death of a Playmate" article written for The Village Voice that had won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. Carpenter had lambasted Bogdanovich and Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was as much a victim of them as she was of Paul Snider. The article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 (1983), in which Bogdanovich was portrayed as the fictional director "Aram Nicholas".
Bogdanovich's career as a noted director was over, and though he achieved modest success with Mask (1985), his sequel to his greatest success The Last Picture Show (1971), Texasville (1990), was a critical and box office disappointment. He directed two more theatrical films in 1992 and 1993, but their failure kept him off the big screen until 2001's The Cat's Meow (2001). Returning once again to a reworking of the past, this time the alleged murder of director Thomas H. Ince by Welles' bete noir William Randolph Hearst, The Cat's Meow (2001) was a modest critical success but a flop at the box office. In addition to helming some television movies, Bogdanovich has returned to acting, with a recurring guest role on the cable television series The Sopranos (1999) as Dr. Jennifer Melfi's analyst.
Bogdanovich's personal reputation suffered from gossip about his 13-year marriage to Dorothy Stratten's 19-year-old-kid sister Louise Stratten, who was 29 years his junior. Some gossip held that Bogdanovich's behavior was akin to that of the James Stewart character in Alfred Hitchcock's necrophiliac masterpiece Vertigo (1958), with the director trying to remold Stratten into the image of her late sister. The marriage ended in divorce in 2001.
Now in his early eighties, Bogdanovich has arguably imitated his hero Orson Welles, but in an unintended fashion, as filmmaker who never regained the acclaim bestowed on their first major success. However, unlike the widely acclaimed master Welles, the orbit of Bogdanovich's reputation has never recovered from the apogee it reached briefly in the early 1970s.
There has been speculation that Peter Bogdanovich's ruin as a director was guaranteed when he ditched his wife and artistic collaborator Polly Platt for Cybill Shepherd. Platt had worked with Bogdanovich on all his early successes, and some critics believe that the controlling artistic consciousness on The Last Picture Show (1971) was Platt's. Parting company with Platt after Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich promptly slipped from the heights of a wunderkind to a has-been pursuing epic folly, as evidenced by Daisy Miller (1974) and At Long Last Love (1975).
In 1998 the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress named The Last Picture Show (1971) to the National Film Registry, an honor awarded only to the most culturally significant films.- Sentimental Education (2004) 8/10
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Andy Wolk's career started in the theater in New York City. He has had plays produced as a writer and director at theaters such as Lincoln Center Institute (TWELFTH NIGHT and THE WINTER'S TALE by Shakespeare) LaMaMa, Ensemble Studio Theater and the Manhattan Theater Club where he was on staff for 5 years. Mr. Wolk has also taught at Brooklyn College, the New School, Lincoln Center and Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Mr. Wolk wrote and directed the acclaimed HBO drama CRIMINAL JUSTICE which Time Magazine named one of the "Ten Best" films of the year. Starring Forest Whitaker and Rosie Perez CRIMINAL JUSTICE also received the Silver Prize at FIPA in Cannes, was named Best Cable movie by The Cable Guide, and was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award. Previously, Mr. Wolk received the Writers Guild Award for NATICA JACKSON which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and was the premiere film of PBS's TALES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS. He has also written and directed episodes of NYPD BLUE and EQUAL JUSTICE plus his first feature, Traces of Red (1992) for Goldwyn.- Boca (1999) 8/10
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- Remember When (2007) 8/10
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In addition to writing and directing, Danny has recently formed the production company, SLY DOG FILMS, with writer-producer Matt Tauber. Danny was also the lead guitarist in the seminal Brooklyn garage band, The Flying Guacamoles.-Luxury Lounge (2006) 8/10- Producer
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Matthew Penn grew up in New York City and is the son of Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde). Penn has directed and/or produced over 200 episodes of some of television's most respected series. Penn began his career at Law and Order where he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Director for the episode 'Empire' starring Julia Roberts. Other iconic series include: The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, Orange is the New Black and Damages. Penn has directed in single camera film and multi-camera television. Penn is also known for his stage work most recently directing Glenn Close in the Public Theater's production of Jane Anderson's Mother of the Maid.- A Hit Is a Hit (1999) 8/10