American film director Peter Bogdanovich has died aged 82. His daughter Antonia says he died of natural causes.
The director belonged to a generation of filmmakers later dubbed ‘New Hollywood’, after makers of the 60s and 70s who approached Hollywood films in a new and idiosyncratic way.
His most famous works are the classics Paper Moon in The Last Picture Show, a 1971 drama about the lives of young people in a Texas hamlet. The Last Picture Show won three Oscars, three BAFTAs (the British film awards) and a Golden Globe.
Turbulent life
Born in 1939, Bogdanovich was the son of a Serbian father and an Austrian mother who had immigrated to the US. He grew up in New York, where he also started his career in the film world. He played small roles in theater and television productions, wrote film reviews and curated film programs for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York.
The trailer of Paper Moon:
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