‘The Last Picture Show’ director Peter Bogdanovic dies

American director Peter Bogdanovic, one of the most prominent figures in the “New Hollywood” movement and director of “The Last Picture Show”, has died at the age of 82, his director announced Thursday.
Peter Bogdanovic, born in 1939 in Kingston, New York, entered the world of cinema as a critic, and began his career as a director with the film “Targets” before dedicating himself to writing his film “The Last Picture Show” (1971) regarding the United States in the fifties of the twentieth century.

The movie, set in a small Texas town going through tough times, earned eight Academy Award nominations, and won two. Some have likened it to Orson Welles’s masterpiece Citizen Kane.

After Bogdanovic achieved other successes in the early seventies, among them “WhatsApp, Doc?” With Barbra Streisand and “Paper Moon”, his career began to go downhill due to a series of failures.

At the end of his career, he acted in films and television, for example, in the series “The Sopranos”, and participated in the movie “Kill Bill” by Quentin Tarantino.

“He was a dear friend and evangelist of cinema,” Mexican director Guillermo del Toro wrote on Twitter, noting that he “made masterpieces” and was “very kind.”