
July 30, 1939 · 86 years old
Peter Bogdanovich ComSE (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started his career as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire before becoming a prominent filmmaker as part of the New Hollywood movement. He received accola…

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover and the call-girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

A traveling theater group find so much action going on behind the scenes that they almost ruin the performances.

An aging horror star contemplates retirement amid the modern culture of random violence, while a disturbed young gun collector embarks on an unprovoked killing spree.

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead...

Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

Since college, Nora hasn't had much luck with men. Now in her 30s, she works in a NYC hotel going nowhere. That is, until she meets Julien.

Mary follows her boyfriend to the hospital for his orthopedic surgery. While she has a coffee in the cafeteria, he disappears. He's not on the hospital computer or CCTV.

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last ...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.

A madcap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its centennial celebration. Oil prices are down, banks ar...

Buck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910).