The film director and screenwriter Peter Bogdanovich died this Thursday at the age of 82 of natural causes, according to The Guardian, citing his daughter.
Titles such as
The Last Movie
or
Paper Moon
consolidated him in the industry as one of the most significant directors of the New Hollywood brood, a cinema installed in the counterculture of the 70s in the United States.
Bogdanovic was a prolific and respected filmmaker in his day but also plagued by personal scandals that threatened to derail his career.
Like Francois Truffaut in his day, Bogdanovich
started on the other side of the trench
, as a film critic:
Esquire
,
Village Voice
and
The New York Times
... published their reviews. In 1964, Roger Corman hired him to collaborate as a screenwriter and cinematographer in
Hell's Angels
in 1966. His foray was so successful that he started directing in 1968 (
Targets
) to find the right key three years later in
La last film
, a commercial and critical success that flourished loaded with Oscar nominations, eight in all.
It is, for many critics, the masterpiece of a filmmaker who came to be considered
"the most exciting new director of the moment in the United States"
, remembered for comedies as round as
What's wrong with me doctor?
or for directing Cher with mastery in
Mask.
Bogdanovich was revered by the industry not only for his behind-the-scenes role but for having struck almost every suit: producer, screenwriter, actor, and one of the most important film historians in the film industry.
For David Thomson, the British critic, "Bogdanovich was a
valuable French-inspired critic
who insisted on directing as an author, so much so that many Americans began to take directors more seriously for what he wrote."
Of Yugoslav origin, Bogdanovich was born in New York on July 30, 1939.
A movie fan since he was a child, at age 20 he began working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
, preparing an anthology of films about Orson. Welles and Howard Hawks.
At the same time he began to write articles on the seventh art and became one of the most prestigious American film critics for his work in the
Esquire
,
Village Voice
and
The New York Times newspapers
.
In 1964 he left his post at the museum and moved to Los Angeles.
His latest film is
Shes funny that way
, premiered in 2014. Other awards include the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián Festival and the 1973 jury award for
Luna de papel
.
In 1989 he married Louise Hoogstratten, Dorothy Stratten's sister-in-law, in Vancouver, with whom he had a relationship for years until her murder in 1980.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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