CAST
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2018)
Starring Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich and Denise Loder-Deluca. Directed by Alexandra Dean.
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life - from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 lm Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten - 'Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story' brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day.
Starring Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich and Denise Loder-Deluca. Directed by Alexandra Dean.
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life - from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 lm Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten - 'Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story' brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day.
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (2017)
Starring Bob Balaban, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater and Paul Schrader. Directed by Kent Jones.
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Starring Bob Balaban, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater and Paul Schrader. Directed by Kent Jones.
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
REVIEWS Hitchcock/Truffaut - A thrilling celebration of a masterwork
78/52
Starring Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Bogdanovich, Karyn Kusama, Bret Easton Ellis, Eli Roth, Oz Perkins, Leigh Whannell, Emilie Germain, Walter Murch and Geoff Marslett. Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe.
An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
Starring Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Bogdanovich, Karyn Kusama, Bret Easton Ellis, Eli Roth, Oz Perkins, Leigh Whannell, Emilie Germain, Walter Murch and Geoff Marslett. Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe.
An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
REVIEWS 78/52 - A blow-by-blow account of 'Psycho's' shower scene
DIRECTOR
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY (2015)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Will Forte, Katherine Hahn and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Young Hollywood starlet Isabella Patterson recalls how the actions of a charming Broadway director, Arnold Albertson, changed her life forever. As told to a reporter in a not-so-reliable recollection of events, the Brooklyn-born former escort reminisces about how a rendezvous with the director turned into a larger-than- expected sum of money and an offer she couldn't refuse. Like a cockeyed fairy tale, a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold’s wife Delta, leading man Seth Gilbert, playwright Joshua Fleet and even Isabella’s therapist Jane ensues.
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Will Forte, Katherine Hahn and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Young Hollywood starlet Isabella Patterson recalls how the actions of a charming Broadway director, Arnold Albertson, changed her life forever. As told to a reporter in a not-so-reliable recollection of events, the Brooklyn-born former escort reminisces about how a rendezvous with the director turned into a larger-than- expected sum of money and an offer she couldn't refuse. Like a cockeyed fairy tale, a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold’s wife Delta, leading man Seth Gilbert, playwright Joshua Fleet and even Isabella’s therapist Jane ensues.
WRITER
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY (2015)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Will Forte, Katherine Hahn and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Young Hollywood starlet Isabella Patterson recalls how the actions of a charming Broadway director, Arnold Albertson, changed her life forever. As told to a reporter in a not-so-reliable recollection of events, the Brooklyn-born former escort reminisces about how a rendezvous with the director turned into a larger-than- expected sum of money and an offer she couldn't refuse. Like a cockeyed fairy tale, a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold’s wife Delta, leading man Seth Gilbert, playwright Joshua Fleet and even Isabella’s therapist Jane ensues.
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Will Forte, Katherine Hahn and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
Young Hollywood starlet Isabella Patterson recalls how the actions of a charming Broadway director, Arnold Albertson, changed her life forever. As told to a reporter in a not-so-reliable recollection of events, the Brooklyn-born former escort reminisces about how a rendezvous with the director turned into a larger-than- expected sum of money and an offer she couldn't refuse. Like a cockeyed fairy tale, a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold’s wife Delta, leading man Seth Gilbert, playwright Joshua Fleet and even Isabella’s therapist Jane ensues.