Monsterpal wrote:
I like SAINT JACK with Ben Gazzara.
My appreciation for SAINT JACK increased when I read the book THE MAKING OF SAINT JACK.
Talk about guerilla film making, SAINT JACK is the real thing.

blackbiped wrote:
Actually, I very fond of LAST PICTURE SHOW, PAPER MOON, and WHAT'S UP, DOC. But I'm still recovering from AT LONG LAST LOVE.
If Bogdanovich had never directed anything else, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is sufficient to establish him as one of the great, great directors.
I'm also very impressed with PAPER MOON, the monocrhome NICKLEODEON, SAINT JACK, THEY ALL LAUGHED, and the recent THE CAT'S MEOW which is as vicious a portrayal of Hollywood society as I've seen, although it does not go far enough.

Since Bogdanovich is a celebrity director, and since he knew Hitchcock personally and counted him a personal and professional firiend, his appear in the supplements of every Hitchcock DVD seems appropriate.

I think TARGETS was light years ahead of its time. I drove my father crazy to take me to see it because Karloff was in it, and thus far I had only seen Karloff in the pages of Famous Monsters and on TV;s Creature Features. He finally relented and took my brothers and I to the drive-in. We were all raised with firearms and were good shooters in the Boy Scouts (the sixties were a different era). We couldn't help but notice that Tim O'Kelly handled the firearms correctly and was well-organized. His firearms were clean, the safety was always on, he chose some interesting firearms and the right firearms for the job. That was the subject of our chatter in the car. My father could name each firearm and tell us the calibre. The only problem, we understood, is that Tim O'Kelly was pointing guns at people and shooting them, which was a definite no-no and could get you kicked out of the Boy Scouts. It got very quiet in the car during the third act, which I now realize was brilliantly staged and edited. There was some horn-honking in the parking lot, but it was hard to tell how audiences are reacting when we were closed in a car with speakers turned up and the front-end tilted up toward the screen. Karloff is wonderful in it, but I wish he was in more of it, and less of Tim O'Kelly.

TARGETS is a significant film, but I think it alienates audiences today because it's too real.

Richard

"... little by little the look of the country
changes because of the people we admire."
dialog in HUD (1963)