Monthly Archives: March 2017
The Other Side of the Director:
Polly Platt and Orson Welles’s Last Movie
Recent film and media news has been filled with excitement at the announcement that Netflix has acquired the rights to Orson Welles’s final, unfinished film project, The Other Side of the Wind. And rightly so! Wind was a labor of … Continue reading
The Bad News Bears: Design by Polly Platt
The Bad News Bears (1976) is the second film Polly Platt designed after several years of working solely with Peter Bogdanovich. The film features Walter Matthau as Buttermaker, the coach of a ragtag bunch of foul-mouthed kids playing little league … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Hunter, Film Authorship, Michael Ritchie, polly platt, production design
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner: Design by Polly Platt
I recently watched The Thief Who Came to Dinner for the first time. This 1973 film was written by the great Walter Hill (and it’s got the punchy script to show for it), directed by an unsung Bud Yorkin,* and … Continue reading