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Peter Bogdanovich: "He was a wonderful and great artist"
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He was considered to represent a generation of young "New Hollywood" directors.
Now the US director Peter Bogdanovich has died at the age of 82.
According to the AP press agency, his daughter Antonia Bogdanovich reported that he died on Thursday morning in Los Angeles.
His team of speakers informed the German Press Agency (dpa) about the director's death.
Bogdanovich was 82 years old.
Bogdanovich, born in New York in 1939, began his career as a film journalist and critic.
At the same time he curated film programs at the Museum of Modern Art, with retrospectives on filmmakers such as Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and John Ford. He became known with the thriller "Moving Targets" (1968).
Three years later he made his feature film "The Last Performance", for which he was nominated with an Oscar.
This was followed by the screwball comedy "Is' what, Doc?" With Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in the lead roles, as well as the road trip film "Paper Moon".
Most recently, Bodanovich made a documentary about the US actor Buster Keaton, entitled »The Great Buster« (2018).
Colleagues reacted in dismay to the news of his death.
"He was a close friend and a master of cinema," wrote director Guillermo del Toro on Twitter.
He created "masterpieces".
"I am devastated.
He was a wonderful and great artist, "said Francis Ford Coppola in a message according to" Deadline.com "the filmmaker.
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