Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘One Handshake Away’ Podcast Debuts Posthumously – IndieWire

Late auteur Peter Bogdanovich is still simply a handshake away per his posthumous podcast, “One Handshake Away.”

Before Bogdanovich’s January 2022 fatality, the filmmaker tape-recorded a collection of meetings with fellow supervisors such as Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Ken Burns, and Rian Johnson to review their greatest motion picture impacts.

Per Target date, Bogdanovich called the podcast “One Handshake Away” to recognize the connection in between modern supervisors and introducing filmmakers, with each filmmaker being “one handshake away” from each other in movie background.

After Bogdanovich’s passing away, del Toro took control of the podcast and tape-recorded the last 3 episodes, talking to Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, and Allison Anders, that included reviewing the jobs of Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang, and Raoul Walsh.

Filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Don Siegel, Orson Welles, and John Ford were reviewed in episodes Bogdanovich tape-recorded; the podcast in addition includes unique historical meetings with Hitchcock, Welles, and Ford that have actually never ever been listened to by the public prior to. Actress/producer Louise Stratten, that was previously wed to Bogdanovich, tells the Audacy podcast.

“Peter Bogdanovich is the epitome of a Hollywood legend — a master behind the camera and a devoted student of the greats who came before him,” Jenna Weiss-Berman, EVP of podcasts at Audacy claimed in a press declaration. “Guided by Louise Stratten, ‘One Handshake Away’ is a treasure trove of intimate, fascinating conversations with leading directors of our time.”

The main summary of “One Handshake Away” reviews: “Before he passed away, iconic filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich began working on a podcast that he lovingly called ‘One Handshake Away.’ In doing so, Bogdanovich sat down for intimate conversations with his favorite contemporary directors to discuss the greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age and revisit never-before-heard interviews that Bogdanovich conducted early in his career with luminaries like Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, and Howard Hawks. These conversations are a love story to cinema, bringing the listener just ‘One Handshake Away’ from the icons of Hollywood, past and present.”

The podcast is executive generated by Audacy‘s Jenna Weiss-Berman, with narrator Stratten producing along with Oren Segal, Luke Moore, Jon Teague, Stak’ s Charlie Morgan, and Ian Mandt. “One Handshake Away” is routed by Perry Crowell, that additionally creates.

On February 5, TCM will certainly broadcast Hitchcock’s “Notorious,” “The Wrong Man,” and “I Confess” with clips from the podcast.

“Peter loved doing the TCM podcast ‘The Plot Thickens,’” the “One Handshake Away” storyteller Stratten claimed. “He loved working with Ben Mankiewicz on that. It inspired him so much that he wanted to take his old recordings of his interviews of these original directors that mentored and inspired him and started his career.”

She proceeded, “He had the idea to come full circle and share his treasure chest with the current directors that he admired and were friends with to have a conversation about them and to keep these directors that inspired him in the current conversation. Hence ‘One Hand Shake Away.’ He would be very excited and proud that we have finished it in partnership with Audacy, and that TCM is also involved.”

Bogdanovich passed away at age 82 in 2022. Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and even more of his peers commemorated the “The Last Picture Show” supervisor. Del Toro tweeted that Bogdanovich was a “dear friend and a champion of cinema,” particularly given that the late filmmaker “single-handedly interviewed and enshrined the lives and work of more classic filmmakers than almost anyone else in his generation.”

“One Handshake Away” is not the only job from a late supervisor that del Toro has actually just recently recommended on: The Oscar victor functioned as assistant supervisor on William Friedkin’s last movie “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”