US director Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show" is hailed as a classic of New Hollywood. LOS ANGELES: Peter Bogdanovich, the acclaimed New Hollywood director of "The Last Picture Show," has died at the age of 82, his agent said Thursday. Starting out as an influential film critic, Bogdanovich began directing with 1968's "Targets," before co-writing his ode to 1950s America "The Last Picture Show." I'll never forgot attending a premiere for 'The Last Picture Show,'" his contemporary, director Francis Ford Coppola, said in a statement to AFP. He birthed masterpieces as a director and was a most genial human," tweeted director Guillermo del Toro.

Source: Bangkok Post January 06, 2022 23:54 UTC