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The director that everyone loved to hate: David Thomson interviews Peter Bogdanovich

Thomson talks to the filmmaker about Buster Keaton, falling out with Hollywood and his mentor Orson Welles

The man who turned down The Godfather, The Exorcist and Chinatown: Peter Bogdanovich in February 1977 [Photo: David Montgomery / Getty Images / Hulton Archive] 
issue 21 March 2020
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