No. /5 The many faces of Peter Bogdanovich
[IN MEMORIAM] The filmmaker behind The Last Picture Show, who died this month, loved cinema in many forms
Peter Bogdanovich, photographed exclusively for Empire in 2017 by Steve Schofield.
THE FILM JOURNALIST
Peter Bogdanovich was a fanboy before the term existed. Between the ages of 12 and 30, he kept track of the films he saw on 3” x 5” index cards, racking up 5,316 flicks. In the ’60s, he started doing reviews and feature articles for Esquire — he did set visits for Howard Hawks’ El Dorado and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds — and even named his 1951 Ford Convertible ‘John Ford’.In a decade that saw US critics go crazy for Euro art cinema, Bogdanovich was a cheerleader for unsung traditional American filmmakers.