Asking for the Moon (2003)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
The second featurette on the PAPER MOON disc features Peter Bogdanovich, cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Polly Platt and Frank Marshall. I'm really not sure why this just wasn't part of the first featurette (THE NEW PICTURE SHOW) because it's pretty much covering similar subjects but either way fans should really enjoy this 16-minute short. Director Bogdanovich talks about why he wanted to film the movie in B&W and he talks about Orson Welles staying at his house and why he wanted his cinematography to speak with him before they started shooting. Kovacs tells a good story about the importance of reds in a black and white movie and from here the featurette turns to various issues in the shooting. Bogdanovich also talks about why he wanted none of the images to be out of focus and why it was so important to him not to have many short takes and instead long takes with no editing. He then gets into a few times where they had to shoot scenes over thirty times because Tatum O'Neil would mess up her lines. There are some great outtakes that show Bogdanovich rehearsing by playing the Ryan O'Neil part and there's some great stuff with him and Tatum including a scene where she keeps messing up the scene, which causes her father to have to eat more waffles.
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
The second featurette on the PAPER MOON disc features Peter Bogdanovich, cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, Polly Platt and Frank Marshall. I'm really not sure why this just wasn't part of the first featurette (THE NEW PICTURE SHOW) because it's pretty much covering similar subjects but either way fans should really enjoy this 16-minute short. Director Bogdanovich talks about why he wanted to film the movie in B&W and he talks about Orson Welles staying at his house and why he wanted his cinematography to speak with him before they started shooting. Kovacs tells a good story about the importance of reds in a black and white movie and from here the featurette turns to various issues in the shooting. Bogdanovich also talks about why he wanted none of the images to be out of focus and why it was so important to him not to have many short takes and instead long takes with no editing. He then gets into a few times where they had to shoot scenes over thirty times because Tatum O'Neil would mess up her lines. There are some great outtakes that show Bogdanovich rehearsing by playing the Ryan O'Neil part and there's some great stuff with him and Tatum including a scene where she keeps messing up the scene, which causes her father to have to eat more waffles.
