Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze

Synopsis

The following video essay, written and narrated for the Criterion Collection by Peter Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette, considers Moze and Addie’s father-daughter-like relationship, as well as the formal techniques and visual styles informed by it, in PAPER MOON.

CAST

Peter Bogdanovich

Self (Archival Footage)

Jerry Lewis

Self (Archival Footage)

Ryan O'Neal

Self (Archival Footage)

Tatum O'Neal

Self (Archival Footage)

Peter Tonguette

Narrator

Peter Bogdanovich

Self (Archival Footage)

Jerry Lewis

Self (Archival Footage)

Ryan O'Neal

Self (Archival Footage)

Tatum O'Neal

Self (Archival Footage)

Peter Tonguette

Narrator

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