R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich

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R.I.P., Peter
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Not a good way to start 2022...
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Oh damn! One of my favorite film people. I've thought if I ever ran into any movie person and could talk to them I'd want it to be Peter Bogdanovich. Loved his films but more so his commentaries on DVDS and documentaries he did on film history. To me he book ends with Roger Ebert, I mean that with the most respect. Peter seemed like someone who loved movies, just like Roger did.



A true loss. A great thinker of film, director of at least two or three absolute masterpieces, and a whole bunch of weirdly interesting failures. An almost perfect resume.



That's sad to hear
Requiescat in pace Peter.



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
Wanted to make a thread myself, but there is no faster than @mark f! You beat me to the punch, you did!

Great director. R.I.P.
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OMG, this year is not getting off to a good start....love The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask, and What's Up, Doc?. His career seemed to veer off course after Paper Moon for awhile, but he came out of the gates like gangbusters with some instant classics. I always have wondered how much his affair with Dorothy Stratten had to do with the downfall his career took. He did show her to very good advantage though in They All Laughed and I always wondered how far she would have gone if she had lived. He did put together a pretty solid resume though...RIP.



When I started watching the Sopranos (I was late as I didn't have HBO, but watched it a year or so after it ended on a friend's DVD set)... I thought the guy playing Dr. Melfi's colleague & Psychiatrist (Dr. Kupferberg) was just another actor with a familiar looking face I'd seen in a few other things before. I didn't realize till later it was Bogdanovich.

Did a little reading on his bio on IMDB - man, he had some baggage - everything from affairs with Cybil Shepard to being the boyfriend of Dorothy Stratton (over which her estranged husband killed her!) to later marrying Stratton's little sister!



R.I.P.


I'll show some love to Saint Jack, which features a great Ben Gazzara peformance and Bogdanovich himself playing a slimy CIA agent.



Hate to hear this one. Man. I'm in the middle of a podcast that TCM's Ben Mankiewicz did with Bogdanovich and it's just totally fascinating stuff. I had just watched The Last Picture Show again last week, only for the second time in my life. He indeed had a great list of films. Godspeed, Peter.
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A true loss. A great thinker of film, director of at least two or three absolute masterpieces
Just out of curiosity, would you consider The Last Picture Show one of those masterpieces, hopefully?