Bob Crane was a radio comedian when he was offered the part of Hogan on Hogan's Heroes. Also an avid photographer, his favorite subject was the female form. He then met John Carpenter, an electronic technician, who introduced him to the new thing, video equipment. John was also a swinger, who turned Bob into a sex addict. And it's this compulsion that would not only end his marriage but also make Bob virtually unhireable.
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A gruesome study of a man's descent from happy family Mr America into a sex-crazed porn junkie which, if made by Cronenberg would probably have Hogan inserting porn videos into Willem Dafoe's head....... or something. As it is, Schrader makes it a stylized study of a man who can't accept his seriously extracurricular activites are actually not quite normal. A superbly filmed & lit tale of the dream gone bad. It reminds me of films like "Parents", but without the surrealism. Willem Dafoe is superbly creepy as Hogan's hanger-on, who, when the popularity dries up - turns on him.
In Auto Focus, the strangely wonderful and weirdly touching new film from Paul Schrader, the comedy and the tragedy keep getting mixed up. The film is based on the rise and lurid fall of the late Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), the television actor whose great claim to fame was lobbing jokes at the world's dumbest Nazis in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
By all accounts Crane was as bland and unmemorable as the character that made him famous, save for the fact that like Hogan he was also a captive of sorts. Instead of a POW camp, Crane was locked inside his addictions--to sex, to video technology, to fame.
Like a lot of Americans, he was hooked on celebrity, th...
Like Milos Foreman's biopic of Andy Kaufman Man On The Moon, the subject of Paul Schrader's Auto Focus is barely known to UK audiences. The film covers the life of Bob Crane, DJ, drummer and actor who between 1965 and 1971 became a US household name as star of 'Hogan's Heroes'. The British equivalent would be someone like Gordon Kaye from 'Allo Allo'. Except Kaye wasn't a notorious sex addict and maker of DIY porn.
Crane (Kinnear) is the picture of 60s all-American decency: he's a churchgoer, he's married to his high school sweetheart Anne (Wilson), he's got well-behaved kids, a good job, a nice home, and a shiny car. However, he's also frustrated. When he lands...
Auto Focus
Improvident sexaholic Bob Crane (Kinnear) came to fame as the star of the '60s TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and died,...
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