Peter Bogdanovich: Last News

As well as working behind and in front of the camera, Bogdanovich was an acclaimed film historian who had published over 10 books with iconic figures in cinema, including Alfred Hitchcock.Following the news, tributes started pouring in for the acclaimed director.Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro wrote: "Peter Bogdanovich passed away. He was a dear friend and a champion of Cinema."He birthed masterpieces as a director and was a most genial human."He single-handedly interviewed and enshrined the lives and work of more classic filmmakers than almost anyone else in his generation," he added.Writer and producer Larry Karaszewski commented: "Peter Bogdanovich loved the movies."Making them, watching them, analysing them, talking all night long about them."“Paper Moon” and “What’s Up Doc?” are two of the most entertaining films of all time.

2021 ended with the unexpected death of filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee, as well as the passing of Betty White, leaving TV and film fans distraught. Well, we’re not even a whole week into 2022, and there’s already the loss of another legend — filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.

The movie world is mourning the death of Peter Bogdanovich, the revered filmmaker behind such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask and What’s Up, Doc? Check out a photo gallery of his career by clicking on the image above.

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.

Tatum O’Neal, who became the youngest Oscar-winning actress at age 10 for her performance in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, paid tribute to the late director today, calling him her “heaven & earth.”

Tributes are pouring in after director and standard-bearer for classic Hollywood moviemaking Peter Bogdanovich died today at 82.

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and critic-turned-filmmaker who directed such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask, died today at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Academy Award-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (“La Grande Bellezza,” “The Young Pope“) and Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence (“Don’t Look Up,” “Silver Linings Playbook“) are teaming up for an untitled biopic about the trailblazing Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers. Mengers crashed the Hollywood boys club of agenting in the ’60s and ’70s with an outsized personality to go with her client list that included actors like Barbra Streisand, Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Cher, Joan Collins, and many more.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorCloris Leachman, who would have turned 95 on April 30, was already a seasoned performer before her impressive streak in film and television began in the early 1970s.

Another month, another array of Criterion Collection releases, and it’s a particularly great month of releases. First up, a crown jewel from the Howard Hawks’ oeuvre, the legendary screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby” with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

With his second solo album, Tom Petty wanted to step away from the Heartbreakers, his band of musical brothers for almost 20 years at the time. The beautiful paradox is that, player by player, the people with whom he chose to record Wildflowers turned out to be those very same musicians (the exception being a new drummer, Steve Ferrone, who would go on to become a full-fledged Heartbreaker of long standing).

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan will be the 2021 recipient of the annual award presented by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).The FIAF Award was introduced in 2001, when it was presented to Martin Scorsese for his film archival efforts.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorPeter Bogdanovich’s first impression of Cloris Leachman was nothing like the lonely housewife she played in “Last Picture Show.”The director recalled his first meeting with Leachman, who died Wednesday at 94, when he was casting “The Last Picture Show.”“One of the producers was Bob Rafaelson. I said, ‘I don’t know any 30 or 40ish women.’ So he made me a list with Cloris and Ellen Burstyn and some other women,” Bogdanovich recalls.

William Earl As Twitter tributes rolled in after Cloris Leachman’s death today, she was most remembered for a comedy career which lasted decades, cemented by iconic roles in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Phyllis” in the 1970s all the way up to last year’s “The Croods: A New Age.” But Leachman’s dramatic performance in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 masterpiece “The Last Picture Show” not only earned her a supporting actress Oscar, it cemented her as one of the greatest actors of her generation.The quiet heart of an indelible coming-of-age story, Leachman plays Ruth Popper, a lonely middle-aged housewife who finds solace in an affair with high school senior Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the film’s protagonist.

Natalie Oganesyan editorOscar winner and eight-time Emmy winner Cloris Leachman, best remembered as the delightfully neurotic Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own subsequent sitcom, was remembered by Hollywood as an incredibly hilarious woman and “comedic genius.” She died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif., and was 94.Her portrayal of Phyllis garnered her two Emmys as a featured actress in a series during the mid-’70s and made her a household name.

If this were a normal festive season when it was possible to have a post-prandial snuggle on the couch with older relatives, or just fans of the best in old-school movie-star glamour, then this documentary about Audrey Hepburn — out Dec. 15 on DVD and Blu-Ray ahead of a Jan.

George J. Steiner Jr., a onetime head of the Louisiana Film Commission and founding president of the now-shuttered Filmworks New Orleans production facility, has died.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticEven those who consider themselves experts on the subject will find a provocative treasure trove of images and anecdotes in “Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies.” Danny Wolf’s documentary is a breezy, open-eyed, and often encyclopedic compendium of all the ways the cinema has celebrated, exploited, and negotiated the power of the naked body. The film kicks off with a montage of actors and directors (Sean Young, Eric Roberts, Peter Bogdanovich) recalling the first movie they ever saw that had nudity in it, and that allows the film, in its early moments, to leap through some of Nudity’s Greatest Hits (“Ecstasy,” “Last Tango in Paris,” “The Blue Lagoon,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”).

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPolly Platt, production designer, screenwriter, producer, and key collaborator to auteurs such as James L. Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich, doesn’t get the credit she deserves as a creative genius.The new season of “You Must Remember This,” Karina Longworth’s deeply researched examination of all things Hollywood history, aims to rectify that injustice.

By Leo Barraclough

Roger Corman, the prolific film director and producer credited with discovering talent like Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, on Wednesday launched a self-named Quarantine Film Festival to judge short films made while would-be Hollywood directors shelter in their homes. Corman on his Instagram page billed the film competition as "the first (and hopefully last) Corman Quarantine Film Festival." The rules call for filmmakers to make a short film inside their home or backyard with what they have at hand as they isolate from the coronavirus pandemic.