One Day Since Yesterday - Peter Bogdanovich
                            
Director: Bill Teck
Year: 2014
Rating: 7.0
A very touching and personal documentary on director Peter Bogdanovich. It was made eight years before his death in 2022 and Bogdanovich is interviewed extensively for the film as well as others in the business. All saying great things about his movies. A prodigy making The Last Picture Show as his second feature film (his first was Targets with Karloff) at the age of 32 and following it up with What's Up Doc and Paper Moon. Three well-received films that put him on top of the world. Then the fall from grace. The films that followed generally got poor reviews and are rarely seen. Last year I decided to watch a few of them and though Daisy Miller was poorly cast, I really liked At Long Last Love, Saint Jack and They All Laughed.



This documentary quickly hops from film to film with a few comments and clips till it gets to They All Laughed. Later you realize that this is really the purpose of the film. Everything else is just filling. Again, I really liked this film as it seems a number of modern directors do from Tarantino to Wes Anderson. Previews were so bad that Fox basically pulled it and Bogdanovitch went into hock buying it back. It has since been reevaluated (thanks in part to Tarantino) as a great whimsical New York romantic film.



But that isn't really the story either. It is his love affair with Dorothy Stratton who is in the film and how her murder effected him and many others. Crushed him. It is tough to watch her light and the grief that followed him for the rest of his life. Though marrying Dorothy's similar looking sister is more than a little Vertigo creepy. Bogdanovich was a guy who just loved movies; making them, acting in them,  talking about them, writing about them, interviewing the greats from the Golden Age and tragically for commercial reasons his career never got to where it deserved to be. This runs 90 minutes and is a treat.