Cinephile and director Peter Bogdanovich, known for his ascot ties as well as his 1970s black-and-white classics The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died aged 82.He began his career as a film journalist and critic and authored several books about filmHis daughter Antonia Bogdanovich said he died of natural causes in his Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.
This evocative portrait of a small, dying town earned him eight Oscar nominations, winning two, and catapulted him to stardom at the age of 32. The director's girlfriend and model Dorothy Stratten was murdered in 1980, before his subsequent marriage to her younger sister Louise who was 29 years younger."Oh dear, a shock. I am devastated. He was a wonderful and great artist," American film director Francis Ford Coppola said."I'll never forget attending a premiere for The Last Picture Show.
"Peter was my heaven & earth. A father figure. A friend. From Paper Moon to Nickelodeon he always made me feel safe. I love you, Peter.""He was a dear friend and a champion of cinema."He single-handedly interviewed and enshrined the lives and work of more classic filmmakers than almost anyone else in his generation," he said in a tweet.
Genius. Dragging paper Moon out for another rewatch.