Bogdanovich scheduled to Run down a Dream.
I haven’t done much day to day stuff here at BC (I know, need to do more, yeah, yeah) but I was just over at Hollywood Elsewhere and a project was mentioned that I had never even heard of. That its a documentary by Peter Bogdanovich is enough. That its a documentary by Peter Bogdanovich concerning Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, evidently, called Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream, is more than enough. Hate that title though.
Tom Petty is under appreciated because he’s so legendary he’s taken for granted, but the dialed down simplicity of his albums age well, and he served as a gateway drug to many other great folk/rock artists for me.
Peter Bogdanovich is one of the great rising stars who flew too close to the flame stories of the 1970s, and has been under appreciated ever since people decided that his last interesting film was Paper Moon. (Seriously, watch the charming The Cat’s Meow, or the pretentious, uneven, but still fascinating Texasville, or the corny, sentimental, but still fully felt Mask, or The Thing Called Love (which is all of the adjectives I just ascribed to Mask.)
Bogdanovich has also written one of THE books about Orson Welles, one of THE books about virtually every classic star of the yesteryears, and probably one of THE books about the legendary Hollywood filmmakers that I can’t get my damn hands on.
The documentary is slated to play at the NY Film Festival (9.29-10.14). Being that’s its four hours long, I would imagine that Dream will very nearly immediately be on DVD as opposed to theaters, but that’s just a guess.
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