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Peter Bogdanovich, filmmaker behind The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, passes away at age 82
Peter Bogdanovich, the legendary director behind The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died at age 82.The acclaimed filmmaker died of natural causes in his Los Angeles homeshortly after midnight on Thursday, his daughter Antonio Bogdanovich revealed toThe Hollywood Reporter.According to Deadline, Bogdanovich's family was with him at the time of his passing. Paramedics were unable to revive him by the time they had arrived.Considered part of a generation of young 'New Hollywood' directors, Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start, with the chilling lone shooter film Targets.Soon after, The Last Picture Show, from 1971, his evocative portrait of a small, dying town earned eight Oscar nominations and won two (for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman), catapulting him to stardom at the age of 32.
