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.
Peter Bogdanovich, the legendary filmmaker behind The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died at age 82; pictured 2017 Considered part of a generation of young New Hollywood directors, Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start The film was both a hit with viewers and at the box office, and decades later was placed in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.'I got the impression that it spoke to a lot of people,' Bogdanovich later remarked of the movie in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.'People have told me that it reminds them of their hometown, so I think it has a certain universality to it.
Young love, and sex and all that, is pretty universal.'He followed The Last Picture Show with the screwball comedy What´s Up, Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, and then the Depression-era road trip film Paper Moon, which won 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal an Oscar as well.O'Neal was among the.
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