Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze (2024)

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 (5)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Peter Bogdanovich

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Ryan O'Neal

Self (archive footage)

Tatum O'Neal

Self (archive footage)

P

Peter Tonguette

Narrator

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