Peter Bogdanovich

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 2:23 p.m.

b'As a chronicler of film history, director Peter Bogdanovich has assembled what amounts to an insider\\u2019s oral history of classic Hollywood, across books and films and assorted individual interviews. His documentary on the silent great Buster Keaton, aptly titled\\xa0The Great Buster, is yet another important project, which opened earlier this month. But Bogdanovich himself surfaces this month in another piece of film history\\u2014Orson Welles\\u2019s\\xa0The Other Side of the Wind, one of cinema\\u2019s\\xa0most anticipated\\xa0unfinished works, which will be released onNovember 2\\xa0after an extensive reconstruction effort. For a special interview episode of The\\xa0Film Comment\\xa0Podcast, Nick Pinkerton sat down with Bogdanovich for a conversation about Keaton, Welles, and more.'