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I always viewed Peter Bogdanovich's long career with a degree of envy. I was familiar with his classic film writing beginning with his groundbreaking MOMA monograph on Orson Welles. Then like so many of us he joined the Corman caravan, working his way up from low budget exploitation films, and along the road to success he seemed to have personally known just about all the classic Hollywood icons. But it took Peter Tonguette's carefully researched and incisive book to show me that Bogdanovich's life and work were anything but charmed. His topsy turvy career is laid out with sympathy and frankness, and is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the way Hollywood works, then and now. Plus, it's a great read! -- Joe Dante, director of Gremlins and The 'Burbs Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director is the book Bogdanovich fans have wanted for so long. Peter Tonguette looks at Bogdanovich's career from his early days to his most recent release, 'The Great Buster.' -- Wellesnet.com Peter Tonguette's Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director, part of the Screen Classics series at the University Press of Kentucky, is a most welcome release.... From start to finish, he approaches the whole of Bogdanovich's life and work with an obvious adoration and, what is more, a demonstrable knowledge repeatedly seen in the depth and detail of his questions. Picturing Peter Bogdanovich is a passionate, engaging and thoroughly insightful volume of film history. -- Vague Visages [T]he book is splendid for what it offers: a cozy chat between artiste and sycophant. The best bits are the parts that add drama to the director's '70s reign and his benighted '80s: the moments when he fights to make a name for himself under Corman's mentoring; the moments when Bogdanovich realizes his ego and shortsightedness prevented otherwise intriguing films from having impact; and the occasion when he comes face to face with a brutal and sickening tragedy and must go on living and creating. These moments make the book, and his career, interesting. Bogdanovich was lucky, but he was also terribly unlucky. -- Cinema Sentries

I always viewed Peter Bogdanovich's long career with a degree of envy. I was familiar with his classic film writing beginning with his groundbreaking MOMA monograph on Orson Welles. Then like so many of us he joined the Corman caravan, working his way up from low budget exploitation films, and along the road to success he seemed to have personally known just about all the classic Hollywood icons. But it took Peter Tonguette's carefully researched and incisive book to show me that Bogdanovich's life and work were anything but charmed. His topsy turvy career is laid out with sympathy and frankness, and is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the way Hollywood works, then and now. Plus, it's a great read! -- Joe Dante, director of Gremlins and The 'Burbs Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director is the book Bogdanovich fans have wanted for so long. Peter Tonguette looks at Bogdanovich's career from his early days to his most recent release, 'The Great Buster.' -- Wellesnet.com Peter Tonguette's Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director, part of the Screen Classics series at the University Press of Kentucky, is a most welcome release.... From start to finish, he approaches the whole of Bogdanovich's life and work with an obvious adoration and, what is more, a demonstrable knowledge repeatedly seen in the depth and detail of his questions. Picturing Peter Bogdanovich is a passionate, engaging and thoroughly insightful volume of film history. -- Vague Visages [T]he book is splendid for what it offers: a cozy chat between artiste and sycophant. The best bits are the parts that add drama to the director's '70s reign and his benighted '80s: the moments when he fights to make a name for himself under Corman's mentoring; the moments when Bogdanovich realizes his ego and shortsightedness prevented otherwise intriguing films from having impact; and the occasion when he comes face to face with a brutal and sickening tragedy and must go on living and creating. These moments make the book, and his career, interesting. Bogdanovich was lucky, but he was also terribly unlucky. -- Cinema Sentries In Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director, author Peter Tonguette documents the complete career of the director of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon via lengthy interviews. This is Bogdanovich in peak form, full of hubris but also honesty. Even his television work is included in this comprehensive book. -- The Film Stage

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Peter Tonguette is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, the Christian Science Monitor, Sight & Sound, and the National Review. He is also the editor of Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews.

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