Special Video Find: Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, and Frank Capra

With the hundreds of video interviews I’ve aggregated on this site, this little voice in my head pipes up from time to time saying, “That’s it, there’s nothing more out there.”

Then I find footage like this! Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, and Frank Capra together at the same time with host Dick Cavett. Unfortunately the Altman segment is not embeddable. But all the others are.

Part 1: Robert Altman

Here

Part 2: Mel Brooks

Part 3: Peter Bogdanovich

Part 4: Frank Capra

Part 5: Capra talks about Lost Horizon

Part 6: Bogdanovich talks about Buster Keaton

Part 7: Brooks bitches about Harry Cohn

Part 8: Bogdanovich bitches about John Simon

For you Altman fans, here he is discussing the movie he directed Nashville:

Part 1

Part 2

We may think of this quartet as directors, but check this out per IMDB:

Altman: 40 writing credits
Brooks: 36 writing credits
Bogdanovich: 10 writing credits
Capra: 40 writing credits

Great directors understand story, so it’s not surprising that so many film directors have a background as writers.

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