Peter Bogdanovich, director of 'Paper Moon' dies

Hollywood in mourning for Peter Bogdanovich: the director of films such as "The Last Show and" Paper Moon "died at the age of 82 in his Los Angeles home Considered one of the leading exponents of the 'New Hollywood' In the seventies, Bogdanovich died today after midnight of natural causes, his daughter Antonia Bogdanovich told the "Hollywood Reporter". Immediate reactions of the dream industry: Francis Ford Coppola said he was "devastated". " A great friend and a champion of cinema with a capital 'C', "commented his colleague Guillermo del Toro. Inspired by Orson Welles'" Citizen Kane ", Bogdanovich began his career as a programmer and film critic for" Esquire ".Moving to Los Angeles, he made friends with the master of horror Roger Corman thanks to whom in the late sixties he shot his first films, the disowned "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" and the thriller "Targets", a homage to Boris Karloff. Success came in 1971 with "The Last Show" inspired by the novel by Larry McMurtry - starring Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman - which had earned eight nominations and two Oscars, and which was also an unexpected success. commercial, with 29 million dollars at the box office against just over a million in production costs. Bogdanovich's philosophy, inspired by the French nouvelle vague, was clear from the beginning: all the great films have already been made,and all that remains for contemporaries is to propose a poetics of nostalgia, remaking the great and unsurpassed classics of the forties and fifties. Thus original remakes were born such as "But does daddy send you alone?" of 1972 which incorporates the style of Vincent Minnelli and was box office blockbuster: they starred for Bogdanovich Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal and the film was later included by the American Film Institute among the 100 best comedies of all time . The following year it was the turn of "Paper Moon", inspired by the cinema of Frank Capra, with O'Neal in the role of the protagonist alongside his daughter Tatum who at the time of the shooting was just nine years old and for that film he won the Oscar. On the crest of the wave, Bogdanovich then rejected films such as "The Godfather", "TheExorcist "and" Chinatown ". Most recently, his filmography includes" Mask "with Cher and" The Cat's Meow "with Kirsten Dunst. The director had also had an acting role in" Sopranos "and small roles in" Kill " Bill "after having lived as a guest of Quentin Tarantino for a year. His private life was much talked about: among the relationships that caused a scandal at the time there was the one with Shepherd, whom he had directed in four films and for which he left his wife and collaborator Polly Platt, and with Playmate Dorothy Stratten who was later killed by her jealous ex-husband.Soprano "and small roles in" Kill Bill "after having lived as a guest of Quentin Tarantino for a year. His private life was much talked about: among the relationships that caused a scandal at the time was the one with Shepherd, whom he had directed in four films and for to whom he left his wife and collaborator Polly Platt, and with Playmate Dorothy Stratten who was later killed by her jealous ex-husband.Soprano "and small roles in" Kill Bill "after having lived as a guest of Quentin Tarantino for a year. His private life was much talked about: among the relationships that caused a scandal at the time was the one with Shepherd, whom he had directed in four films and for to whom he left his wife and collaborator Polly Platt, and with Playmate Dorothy Stratten who was later killed by her jealous ex-husband.