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  Review by linny ★★★★★

  mom made me turn it off because it made her sad. also she said quentin tarantino comes off as gay which is the hottest take of 2017.

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  Review by eely 🎃 ★★★½ 1

  peter standing in for barbra in the rehearsal for the piano scene in what’s up doc and nearly kissing ryan o’neal...the fact that they were rolling the whole time and peter didn’t know until he watched the dailies the next day...should’ve ended up in the final film tbh

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  Review by adelaideblair ★★★½

  I feel for the guy, but marrying Dorothy Stratten's sister is some Vertigo-level obsessive shit.

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  Review by dankwit

  mr bogdanovich, if you need somebody to retype your card file of thumbnail movie reviews for online storage (perhaps on a service such as...letterboxd), you can find me here. my words-per-minute is on point.

  kudos to @BlinkingBuzzard for championing They All Laughed years ago, to the point that he bought up ten copies when he found it at a dollar store and gave them to friends (myself included). I'll get your copy of The Killing of a Unicorn back asap, I haven't forgot :P

  well-done documentary on a worthwhile subject

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  Review by Craig Duffy ★★★★

  As a pretty serious movie nut I have seen quite a lot of documentaries about film. Docs about specific films, docs about specific filmmakers, docs about movements, docs about techniques - I’ve seen them all. As edifying as most of these are, few of them actually rate as good cinema. Most of these docs come from a place of fanaticism and therefore the impulse is to include anything and everything that you can find related to your subject. This results in a long ramble that merely ends because there is no more material. What makes Bill Teck’s One Day since Yesterday so unique is that it actually has a shape to it. Rather than just being a big love letter…

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  Review by Brendan Michaels ★★★★

  Recently finished reading The Killing of the Unicorn which is an incredible book and worth the read for any fan of “They All Laughed” and finally decided to watch this documentary. Not gonna lie, it’s an amateurish film with cheesy editing, poorly lit interviews, and some poor music cues, but completely makes up for it with the fantastic interviews from everyone. Long Live Peter Bogdanovich!

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  Review by dantesring ★★★½

  I have been fortunate in my life to have never known true grief, although as I get older it is inevitable that it will come. I have noticed as I am aging that the emotional impact of seeing other people's grief and pain is a very visceral to me causing me to lapse into melancholy and tears. ONE DAY SINCE YESTERDAY is a movie that is has grieving and loss seeping through every frame and as such it is a difficult film to watch.
  Peter Bogdanovich truly loves film, as a hobby, as a career and as a passion. He is one of the fortunate few who was able to do what he loved and was successful at it. All…

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  Review by Jason Bailey ★★★★

  The new vogue in documentary seems to be “movies about movies that were never made,” so I probably shouldn’t be as surprised as I am that director Bill Teck went and made a full documentary feature about Peter Bogdanovich’s 'They All Laughed,' not exactly the best known effort from the director of 'The Last Picture Show' and 'Paper Moon.' But it’s a fascinating story, of that 1981 film’s creation, production, and the nightmarish murder, during post-production, of supporting actress (and Bogdanovich’s love) Dorothy Stratten. It was a tragedy that derailed the entire picture, up to and including the director’s decision to self-distribute the movie (to better protect), a move that put into semi-permanent obscurity. But it was later rediscovered and…

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  Review by LeFilmGirl ★★★★

  It seems cliche to watch this doc and then frantically search for They All Laughed to watch. But to be honest, after watching One Day Since Yesterday, I kind of don't want to watch Bogdanovich's last heartfelt film. Hearing Bogdanovich, Tarantino, Baumbach and Wes Anderson praise this piece of art and for me to watch it and feel otherwise would be a true letdown. They All Laughed seems too good to be true and I want it to stay like that in my brain.

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  Review by Channing Pomeroy ★★★½

  This is one of those odd cases where I liked the Making-Of documentary better than the film itself.

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  Review by ireland

  lászló kovács, i owe you my life for capturing peter serenading and attempting to kiss ryan o’neal on film.

  now is this a great documentary? no. half of the photos appear to be blurry screenshots and it’s edited like an 8th grade powerpoint. but it’s worth it for the lovely interviews. genuinely heartbreaking at times. i cannot wait for the day they all laughed is given its proper dues as a total gem of a film.

  (stay until the end to see ben gazzara get excited about a new york knicks game)

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  Review by Justin Gerber

  I loved They All Laughed after watching it.

  I loved They All Laughed after watching this.