Editing Peter Bogdanovich (section)

==Career==
===1960s===
In the early 1960s, Bogdanovich was known as a film programmer at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City, where he programmed influential retrospectives and wrote [[monograph]]s for the films of  [[Orson Welles]], [[John Ford]], [[Howard Hawks]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]].<ref name="NYTobit"/><ref name="HarvardFilmArchive">{{cite web |title=Peter Bogdanovich. Between Old and New Hollywood |url=https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/peter-bogdanovich-between-old-and-new-hollywood |website=Harvard Film Archive |date=January 29, 2010 |access-date=January 7, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Bogdanovich also brought attention to [[Allan Dwan]], a pioneer of American film who had fallen into obscurity by then, in a 1971 retrospective Dwan attended.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Allan-Dwan|title=Allan Dwan|access-date=January 7, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1348|website=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=January 7, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> He also programmed for [[New Yorker Films|New Yorker Theater]].<ref name="NYTobit" />

Before becoming a director, he wrote for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', and ''[[Cahiers du Cinéma]]'' as a film critic.<ref name="NYTobit" /><ref name="HarvardFilmArchive"/> These articles were collected in ''[[Pieces of Time]]'' (1973).<ref>{{Cite news|department=Books of The Times|title=Three Watchers in the Dark: A Writer's Virtues|last=Walker|first=Gerald|date=November 17, 1973|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=33}}</ref>

In 1966, following the example of ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' critics [[François Truffaut]], [[Jean-Luc Godard]], [[Claude Chabrol]], and [[Éric Rohmer]], who had created the [[Nouvelle Vague]] ("New Wave") by making their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director. Encouraged by director [[Frank Tashlin]], whom he would interview in his book ''Who the Devil Made It'', Bogdanovich headed for Los Angeles with his wife [[Polly Platt]] and in so doing, left his rent unpaid.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Byrge|first2=Gregg|last2= Kilday|first1= Duane|date=January 6, 2022|title=Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-Nominated Director and Champion of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 82|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-bogdanovich-dead-last-picture-show-1235070769/|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/15529/who-the-devil-made-it-by-peter-bogdanovich/9780307817457|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=Penguin Random House Canada|language=English}}</ref>

Intent on breaking into the industry, Bogdanovich would ask publicists for movie premiere and industry party invitations. At one screening, Bogdanovich was viewing a film and director [[Roger Corman]] was sitting behind him. The two struck up a conversation when Corman mentioned he liked a cinema piece Bogdanovich wrote for ''Esquire''. Corman offered him a directing job, which Bogdanovich accepted immediately. He worked with Corman on ''[[Targets]]'', which starred [[Boris Karloff]], and ''[[Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women]]'', under the pseudonym Derek Thomas. Bogdanovich later said of the Corman school of filmmaking, "I went from getting the laundry to directing the picture in three weeks. Altogether, I worked 22 weeks – preproduction, shooting, second unit, cutting, dubbing – I haven't learned as much since."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gray |first=Beverly |title=What They Learned From Roger Corman |url=http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/42/corman-learned.htm |url-status=dead |magazine=[[MovieMaker]]|issue=42 |date=April 16, 2006 |access-date=August 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060416082136/http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/42/corman-learned.html |archive-date=April 16, 2006}}</ref>

===1970s===
Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with [[Orson Welles]] while interviewing him on the set of [[Mike Nichols]]'s ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]''. Bogdanovich played a major role in reviving Welles and his career with his writings on the actor-director, particularly through his rebuttal, in the pages of Esquire, of Pauline Kael's book The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane, a 1971 attack on the centrality of Welles' contribution to the film. (Bogdanovich's book-length interview with Welles, ''[[This is Orson Welles]],'' was not released until 1992.) In the early 1970s, when Welles was having financial problems, Bogdanovich let him stay at his [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]] mansion for a couple of years.<ref name="NYTobit" />

In 1970, Bogdanovich was commissioned by the [[American Film Institute]] to direct a documentary about [[John Ford]] for their tribute, ''[[Directed by John Ford]]''. The resulting film included candid interviews with [[John Wayne]], [[James Stewart]], and [[Henry Fonda]], and was narrated by Orson Welles. Out of circulation for years due to licensing issues, Bogdanovich and [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]] released it in 2006, re-edited it to make it "faster and more incisive", with additional interviews with [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Walter Hill]], [[Harry Carey Jr.]], [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Steven Spielberg]], and others.<ref>Lammers, Tim. "[http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/10262273/detail.html Bogdanovich Points 'John Ford' In Right Direction – Documentary About Film Icon Restructured 35 Years After Original] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217132016/http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/10262273/detail.html |date=2012-02-17}}", WESH.com (WESH TV, Orlando, Florida), November 7, 2006.</ref>

Much of the inspiration that led Bogdanovich to his cinematic creations came from early viewings of the film ''[[Citizen Kane]]''. In an interview with [[Robert K. Elder]], author of ''[[The Film That Changed My Life]]'', Bogdanovich explains his appreciation of Orson Welles's work:<blockquote>It's just not like any other movie you know. It's the first modern film: fragmented, not told straight ahead, jumping around. It anticipates everything that's being done now, and which is thought to be so modern. It's all become really decadent now, but it was certainly fresh then.<ref>Bogdanovich, Peter. Interview by Robert K. Elder. The Film That Changed My Life. By Robert K. Elder. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011. N. p56. Print.</ref></blockquote>

The 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by critics as a "Wellesian" wunderkind when his best-received film, ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'', was released in 1971. The film earned eight [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations, including [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], and won two statues, for [[Cloris Leachman]] and [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]] in the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay with [[Larry McMurtry]], and it won the 1971 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast the 21-year-old model [[Cybill Shepherd]] in a major role in the film and fell in love with her,<ref name="Meher">{{cite web|last=Tatna|first=Meher|url=https://www.filmcompanion.in/interviews/peter-bogdanovich-movies-the-last-picture-show-memories-of-the-70s-and-hollywood-today-paper-moon|title=Peter Bogdanovich On Creating The Last Picture Show, Memories Of The 70s And Hollywood Today|website=Film Companion|date=April 16, 2022|access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref> an affair leading to his divorce from [[Polly Platt]], his longtime artistic collaborator and the mother of his two daughters.<ref name="guardobit">{{cite news|last=Bergan|first=Ronald|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/peter-bogdanovich-obituary|title= Peter Bogdanovich obituary|website= [[The Guardian]]|date= January 7, 2022}}</ref>

Bogdanovich followed up ''The Last Picture Show'' with the [[screwball comedy]] ''[[What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)|What's Up, Doc?]]'', starring [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Ryan O'Neal]].<ref name="NYTobit"/> Bogdanovich then formed [[The Directors Company]] with [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and [[William Friedkin]] and co-owned by [[Paramount Pictures]].<ref name="deci">{{cite web|url=https://decider.com/2022/01/06/peter-bogdanovich-dies-at-82/|title=Peter Bogdanovich, Legendary Director of 'The Last Picture Show,' Dies at 82|first=Fletcher|last=Peters|date=January 6, 2022 }}</ref> Paramount allowed the directors to make a minimum of twelve films with a budget of $3 million each. It was through this entity that Bogdanovich's ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]'' was produced.<ref>{{cite news|title=3 FILMS ANNOUNCED BY DIRECTORS GROUP|date=September 6, 1972|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=40}}</ref>

''Paper Moon'', a [[Great Depression|Depression]]-era comedy starring [[Ryan O'Neal]] that won his 10-year-old daughter [[Tatum O'Neal]] an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved the high-water mark of Bogdanovich's career. Forced to share the profits with his fellow directors, Bogdanovich became dissatisfied with the arrangement. The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more pictures, Coppola's ''[[The Conversation]]'' (1974, which was nominated for Best Picture in 1974 alongside ''[[The Godfather Part II]]''), and Bogdanovich's Cybill Shepherd vehicle, ''[[Daisy Miller (film)|Daisy Miller]]'', which had a lackluster critical reception and was a disappointment at the box office.<ref name="NYTobit"/> The partners of The Directors Company all went their separate ways after the production of ''Daisy Miller''.<ref name="deci"/>

Bogdanovich's next effort, ''[[At Long Last Love]]'', was a musical starring Shepherd and [[Burt Reynolds]]. Both that and his next film, ''[[Nickelodeon (film)|Nickelodeon]]'', were critical and box-office disasters,<ref name="NYTobit"/> severely damaging his standing in the film community. Reflecting upon his recent career, Bogdanovich said in 1976, "I was dumb. I made a lot of mistakes."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bogdanovich directs his remarks to sex, violence|author=Siskel, Gene|work=Chicago Tribune|date=December 21, 1976|page=a1}}</ref>

In 1975, he sued [[Universal Content Productions|Universal]] for breaching a contract to produce and direct ''Bugsy''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Murphy, Mary|title=MOVIE CALL SHEET: Michael York Heads for Future CALL SHEET|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 30, 1975|page=b6}}</ref> He then took a few years off, then returned to directing with a lower-budgeted film, ''[[Saint Jack (film)|Saint Jack]]'', which was filmed in [[Singapore]] and starred [[Ben Gazzara]] in the title role.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/00eb99c7-5e99-412a-a491-288dc88f740c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/00eb99c7-5e99-412a-a491-288dc88f740c |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Cities on screen: seven snapshots of Singapore|work=[[Financial Times]]|date=January 11, 2022|last1=Leigh|first1=Danny}}</ref> The film earned critical praise, although was not a box-office hit.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Peter Bogdanovich American film director|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Bogdanovich#ref1185527|encyclopedia=[[Britannica]]|date=May 2, 2023 }}</ref> The making of this film marked the end of his romantic relationship with Cybill Shepherd.<ref name="iobit">{{cite web|title=Peter Bogdanovich Dies: New Hollywood Maverick and Oscar Nominee Was 82|date=January 6, 2022|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/peter-bogdanovich-dead-1234689025/}}</ref>

===1980s===
Bogdanovich's next film was the romantic comedy ''[[They All Laughed]]'' which featured [[Dorothy Stratten]], a former model and ''[[Playboy]]'' Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and [[List of Playmates of the Year|Playmate of the Year]] in 1980,<ref name=wekinglypigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=stratten%2C+dorothy&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=January 29, 2010}}</ref> who began a romantic relationship with Bogdanovich. He took over distribution of ''They All Laughed'' himself. Bogdanovich later blamed this for his filing for bankruptcy in 1985.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bogdanovich Files for Bankruptcy: Film's Failure Led to $6.6 Million in Debts Bankrupt |first=David|last=Crook|date=December 19, 1985|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=C1}}</ref> He declared he had a monthly income of $75,000 and monthly expenses of $200,000.<ref>{{Cite news|title=BOGDANOVICH'S BANKRUPT MEMORIAL: BANKRUPT MEMORIAL|author=Crook, David|work=Los Angeles Times|date=December 19, 1985|page=i1}}</ref>

Shortly after the film finished shooting, Stratten was murdered by her estranged husband [[Paul Snider]], who then killed himself.<ref name="guardobit"/> To cope with the tragedy, Bogdanovich began writing ''[[The Killing of the Unicorn]]'', a memoir detailing the relationship between Stratten and himself, the making of ''They All Laughed'' and her murder. "I wanted to understand what happened to her," said Bogdanovich, "I felt I couldn't move forward with my life, creative or otherwise until I did." Bogdanovich said the book was meant to be delivered to [[William Morrow and Company]] in August 1982, "but new facts kept coming to light and so it was delayed. I did more and more rewriting. In all, I suppose, I wrote the book five times." The book was eventually published in 1984.<ref name="los">{{Cite news|title=MOVIES: STRATTEN'S GHOST STILL HOVERS OVER BOGDANOVICH|author=Mann, Roderick.|date=July 8, 1984|work=Los Angeles Times|page=y16}}</ref>

Stratten's murder was highly publicized, with [[Teresa Carpenter]]'s "Death of a Playmate" article even claiming that she was as much a victim of Bogdanovich and ''[[Playboy]]'' mogul [[Hugh Hefner]] as she was Snider.<ref name="NYTobit"/> Carpenter's article then served as the basis for [[Bob Fosse]]'s film ''[[Star 80]]''. Bogdanovich opposed the production and refused to allow the film to use his name. He was portrayed as the fictional "Aram Nicholas", and he threatened litigation if he found the character objectionable.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: STAR 80|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58102|access-date=January 10, 2022|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]}}</ref> Shortly after, Hefner accused Bogdanovich of seducing Stratten's younger sister Louise when she was 13. On December 30, 1988, the 49-year-old Bogdanovich married 20-year-old Louise, sparking a tabloid frenzy.<ref name="NYTobit"/><ref>{{cite news|date=January 3, 1989|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-03-mn-244-story.html|title=Bogdanovich Weds Sister of His Murdered Lover|newspaper= [[LA Times]]|access-date= July 31, 2015}}</ref>

After Stratten's murder, Bogdanovich said he "didn't go out much", but one day got a call from his friend [[John Cassavetes]] who asked him to direct [[Diahnne Abbott]] in a scene from his film ''[[Love Streams (film)|Love Streams]]'' to help get him out of the house.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gallagher|first=John|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/peter-bogdanovich-on-john-cassavetes/|title="I Loved John. I Miss Him a Lot." Peter Bogdanovich Reminisces on His Friend John Cassavetes|magazine=[[MovieMaker]]|date=December 7, 2016|access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref> Despite Bogdanovich's contribution to the film, which even he himself admitted was minor, Cassavetes tried to get the [[Directors Guild of America|Directors Guild]] to give him a shared credit.

Bogdanovich had wanted to make ''I'll Remember April'' with Cassavetes and ''The Lady in the Moon'' written with [[Larry McMurtry]],<ref>{{cite news|title=HIS UP-AND-DOWN CAREER IS HEADING UP AGAIN|author=Lyman, Rick|work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=March 4, 1983|page=C.1}}</ref> but returned to directing officially with ''[[Mask (1985 film)|Mask]]'', which was released in 1985 to critical acclaim and strong box office returns. The film was released with a song score by [[Bob Seger]] against Bogdanovich's wishes (he favored [[Bruce Springsteen]]). A director's cut of the film, slightly longer and with Springsteen's songs, was belatedly released on DVD in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/remembering-director-peter-bogdanovich-1234689077/|title=Remembering Peter Bogdanovich: From Maverick Director to Classic Hollywood Raconteur|date=January 6, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.looper.com/728213/peter-bogdanovichs-films-ranked-from-worst-to-best/|title=Peter Bogdanovich's Films Ranked From Worst To Best|date=January 8, 2022}}</ref>

Bogdanovich directed the comedy ''[[Illegally Yours]]'' in 1988, starring [[Rob Lowe]]. Bogdanovich later disowned the film, saying he had "high hopes for it", but that it had been completely re-cut by [[Dino De Laurentiis]], the film's distributor.

===1990s===
In 1990, Bogdanovich adapted [[Larry McMurtry]]'s novel  ''[[Texasville (novel)|Texasville]]'', a sequel to ''[[The Last Picture Show (novel)|The Last Picture Show]]'', into a [[Texasville|film]]. It is set 32 years after the events of ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'', and [[Jeff Bridges]] and [[Cybill Shepherd]] both reprised their roles as Duane and Jacy. It was a critical and [[box-office bomb|box office disappointment]] relative to the first film.<ref name="guardobit"/> Bogdanovich often complained that the version of ''Texasville'' that was released was not the film he had intended. His cut of ''Texasville'' was later released on [[LaserDisc]], and the theatrical cut was released on DVD by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] in 2005.<ref name="emmanuellevy">{{Cite web|url=https://emanuellevy.com/oscar/oscar-directors-bogdanovich-peter-background-career-awards-filmography/|title=Oscar Directors: Bogdanovich, Peter–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography &#124; Emanuel Levy|date=August 17, 2020 }}</ref> After the release of ''Texasville'', Bogdanovich revisited ''The Last Picture Show'' and produced a modified director's cut for [[The Criterion Collection]] which includes seven minutes of previously unseen footage and re-edited scenes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-12-ca-352-story.html|first=Barbara|last=Saltzman|title=Bogdanovich's 'Last Picture Show' as He Intended It: The director has added and re-edited scenes to deliver the film he wanted in 1971. He also explains many of its technical and artistic components.|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 12, 1991}}</ref>

In 1991, Bogdanovich developed an alternative [[calendar]], titled ''A Year and a Day: Goddess Engagement Calendar''. The calendar consisted of 13 months of 28 days and a bonus day to equal 365 days. Each month was named after a different species of tree.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Knight |first1=Chris |title='Peter Bogdanovich, director, cinephile — and proponent of calendar reform?' |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/peter-bogdanovich-director-cinephile-and-proponent-of-calendar-reform |access-date=January 9, 2022 |work=National Post |publisher=Postmedia |date=January 8, 2022}}</ref> Bogdanovich attributed his inspiration for the calendar to the works of [[Robert Graves]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bodganovich |first1=Peter |title=A Year and a Day Engagement Calendar 1992: A Desk Diary Adapted From the Works of Robert Graves |date=September 30, 1991 |publisher=Overlook Books |location=New York City |isbn=978-0879514297}}</ref>

Bogdanovich directed two more theatrical films in 1992 and 1993, but neither film recaptured the success of his early career. One, ''[[Noises Off (film)|Noises Off]]'', was based on [[Noises Off|a stage play]] by [[Michael Frayn]],<ref name="guardobit"/> while another, ''[[The Thing Called Love]]'', is better known as one of [[River Phoenix]]'s last roles before his death. In the mid-90s, Bogdanovich began to work in television, directing films such as ''[[To Sir, with Love II]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.looper.com/730146/sidney-poitiers-best-co-stars-ranked/|title=Sidney Poitier's Best Co-Stars Ranked|date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> In 1997, he declared bankruptcy again.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-04-me-65482-story.html|title=Director Bogdanovich Declares Bankruptcy|last=O'Neill|first=Ann W|date=June 4, 1997|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 23, 2019}}</ref> Drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, he wrote several critically lauded books, including ''Who the Devil Made It'', featuring archival interviews that Bogdanovich had held with famous Hollywood directors, and ''Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week'', which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films.<ref name="NYTobit" />

===2000s===
In 2001, Bogdanovich resurfaced with ''[[The Cat's Meow]]'', his return once again to a reworking of the past, this time the alleged killing of director [[Thomas H. Ince|Thomas Ince]] by [[William Randolph Hearst]]. The film was a modest critical success but made little money at the box-office. Bogdanovich said that he was told the story of the alleged Ince murder by Welles, who in turn said he heard it from writer [[Charles Lederer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=213 |title=Interview with Peter Bogdanovich from March 9, 2008 |publisher=Wellesnet.com |date=March 14, 2008 |access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>

In addition to directing some television work, Bogdanovich returned to acting with a recurring guest role on the cable television series ''[[The Sopranos]]'', playing [[Jennifer Melfi|Dr. Melfi]]'s psychotherapist,<ref name="NYTobit"/> also later directing a fifth-season episode. He had a voice role, as [[Bart Simpson]]'s therapist's analyst in [[Yokel Chords|an episode]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/03/05/the-simpsons-yokel-chords-review|title=The Simpsons: ''Yokel Chords'' Review|date=March 5, 2007}}</ref> and appeared as himself in the "[[Robots Versus Wrestlers]]" episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/how-i-met-your-mother-robots-vs-wrestlers-1798164945|title=How I Met Your Mother: "Robots Vs. Wrestlers"|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=May 11, 2010}}</ref> [[Quentin Tarantino]] cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in ''[[Kill Bill: Volume 1]]'' and ''[[Kill Bill: Volume 2]]''. "Quentin knows, because he's such a movie buff, that when you hear a disc jockey's voice in my pictures, it's always me, sometimes doing different voices", said Bogdanovich. "So he called me and he said, 'I stole your voice from ''The Last Picture Show'' for the rough cut, but I need you to come down and do that voice again for my picture&nbsp;... '"<ref name="Sports.espn.go.com">{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=10bqs/bogdanovich |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041209194949/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=10bqs/bogdanovich |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2004 |title=ESPN interview with Peter Bogdanovich |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=February 22, 1999 |access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref> He hosted ''[[The Essentials (TV program)|The Essentials]]'' on [[Turner Classic Movies]], but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host [[Robert Osborne]] and film critic [[Molly Haskell]]. Bogdanovich hosted introductions to movies on [[Criterion Collection]] DVDs, and had a supporting role in the critically praised mini-series ''[[Out of Order (miniseries)|Out of Order]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joblo.com/peter-bogdanovich-dies-82/|title=Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-nominated director of Paper Moon, dies at 82|date=January 6, 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Peter Bogdanovich.jpg|thumb|Bogdanovich at the [[Castro Theatre]], 2008]]
In 2006, Bogdanovich joined forces with ClickStar, where he hosted a classic film channel, Peter Bogdanovich's Golden Age of Movies. Bogdanovich also wrote a blog for the site.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://community.cstar.com/thread.jspa?threadID=400000020 |title=Community.cstar.com |access-date=January 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313135456/http://community.cstar.com/thread.jspa?threadid=400000020 |archive-date=March 13, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2003, he appeared in the BBC documentary ''[[Easy Riders, Raging Bulls]]'', and in 2006 he appeared in the documentary ''[[Wanderlust (2006 film)|Wanderlust]]''. The following year, Bogdanovich was presented with an award for outstanding contribution to film preservation by the [[International Federation of Film Archives]] (FIAF) at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?ID=707112015001386|title=Films & Schedules La Grand Illusion|last=Frank|first=Sylvia|date=2007|website=Toronto International Film Festival Guide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113145613/http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?ID=707112015001386|archive-date=November 13, 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=August 23, 2019}}</ref>

===2010s===
In 2010, Bogdanovich joined the directing faculty at the School of Filmmaking at the [[University of North Carolina School of the Arts]]. On April 17, 2010, he was awarded the Master of Cinema Award at the 12th Annual [[RiverRun International Film Festival]]. In 2011, he was given the Auteur Award by the [[International Press Academy]], which is awarded to filmmakers whose singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production give a personal and signature style to their films.<ref>[http://www.pressacademy.com/award_cat/current-nominees/ 2011 Satellite Winners], December 2011.</ref>

In 2012, Bogdanovich made news with an essay in ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', published in the aftermath of the [[2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting|Aurora, Colorado theater shooting]], in which he argued against excessive violence in the movies:{{Blockquote|Today, there's a general numbing of the audience. There's too much murder and killing. You make people insensitive by showing it all the time. The body count in pictures is huge. It numbs the audience into thinking it's not so terrible. Back in the '70s, I asked Orson Welles what he thought was happening to pictures, and he said, 'We're brutalizing the audience. We're going to end up like the [[Roman circus]], live at the [[Colosseum|Coliseum]].' The respect for human life seems to be eroding.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dark-knight-rises-shooting-peter-bogdanovich-353774 |title=Legendary Director Peter Bogdanovich: What If Movies Are Part of the Problem? |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=July 25, 2012|access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>}}

In 2014, Bogdanovich's last narrative film, ''[[She's Funny That Way (film)|She's Funny That Way]]'', was released in theaters and on-demand, followed by the documentary, ''[[The Great Buster: A Celebration]]'' in 2018.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Great Buster|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8758548/|access-date=January 2, 2020}}</ref> In 2018, [[Orson Welles]]' long-delayed film ''[[The Other Side of the Wind]]'', which was filmed in the 1970s and featured a prominent supporting role by Bogdanovich, who had long hoped to complete it, was released by [[Netflix]] to critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_other_side_of_the_wind|title=The Other Side of the Wind (2018)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=November 2, 2018 |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date=January 7, 2022}}</ref>

One of his final hopes was to direct a personal passion project he had worked on since the 1980s titled ''Wait for Me'' which Bogdanovich had described as a "ghost picture", the likes of ''[[The Ghost Goes West]]'', that was directly inspired by his relationship with [[Dorothy Stratten]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/does-this-seem-strange-to-you-20020720-gdueyi.html|title=Does this seem strange to you?|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=July 20, 2002|access-date=December 3, 2023|quote=And a ghost picture called ''Wait For Me'' that he says he's been working on "literally for 20 years", which takes us back to the immediate aftermath of [[Dorothy Stratten]]'s death. "I like the story. It's got a lot more difficult since I first thought of it, though. It used to be about a guy who married three times and had three daughters. Now he marries six times and has six daughters."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Prigge|first=Matt|url=https://www.metro.us/peter-bogdanovich-on-shes-funny-that-way-and-orson-welles-last-movie/|title=Peter Bogdanovich on 'She's Funny That Way' and Orson Welles' last movie|work=[[Metro International]]|date=August 21, 2015|access-date=December 4, 2023|quote=I'm going to do another film first called "Wait for Me." It's a comedy-drama-fantasy, because there are ghosts in it. It's something I've been working on for more than 30 years. I think I've finally got it right. It's gone through many versions and drafts. But it was the first idea that sprang to mind after a little tragedy we had here in the family. In November of '80 I thought it might be an interesting idea. I don't think I wrote a script until the end of the '80s. Originally it was for [[John Cassavetes]] to play the lead. But John was very ill. He died in '89. But I sent him the script, which was an early draft, and he gave me some notes. And for the rest of the time before he died, he'd say, "Are you going to make that picture?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "You better make that picture." And then when he was very close to dying, one of the last things he said to me was, "Listen, kid, you better make that picture, because you know what? I'll be there."}}</ref> In a July 2015 interview for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', Bogdanovich revealed that [[Brett Ratner]] was going to produce the film, and that they were currently in the process of attaching actors. The plot, as described by Bogdanovich, would have followed a washed-up Hollywood director/star (someone like [[Orson Welles]] or [[Charlie Chaplin]]), who is visited by the ghost of his last wife, who was killed six years earlier in a plane crash.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Labrecque|first=Jeff|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/07/24/peter-bogdanovich-shes-funny-way/|title=Peter Bogdanovich talks his new screwball comedy and his plans to finish Orson Welles' lost, last movie|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=July 24, 2015|access-date=September 3, 2022|quote="It's about a movie director slash star — somebody like [[Woody Allen]] or [[John Cassavetes]] or [[Orson Welles]] or [[Charlie Chaplin]] — and he's basically known for comedy. And he's been married six times and he's got six daughters, and his last wife, the one he seems to have been most keen on, was killed in a plane crash, six years before the movie begins. And the guy's life in those six years, since it happened, has turned to s**t. He's in bad shape. He can't be hired by Hollywood because he chopped up a projection room and beat up a producer. So he's ''[[persona non grata]]'' in Hollywood. Before the picture begins, he spends quite a bit of time in Italy, conning the Italians that he's got a story, that he's got to check locations. So he's been traveling all around Italy. I don't want to get into the whole plot, but the point is the ghost of his last wife shows up eventually. And there's a rock star that gets into trouble. He's a friend of his, and he's in love with one of his daughters. It's a complicated comedy-drama-fantasy, and I'm very keen on it. And Brett likes it and we're going to do it."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_dnn8LAjI0&si=kKAFQTEdzCQ9ypp2|title=BOGDANOVICH, his next film "WAIT FOR ME"|date=April 18, 2016|website=[[YouTube]]|format=video}}</ref>

===2020s===
Bogdanovich collaborated with [[Turner Classic Movies]], and host [[Ben Mankiewicz]], to create a documentary podcast about his life, which premiered in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming Article/021880/tcm-presents-the-plot-thickens |title=The Plot Thickens |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]  |access-date=April 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="cinemablend">{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/the-last-picture-show-director-and-sopranos-actor-peter-bogdanovich-is-dead-at-82|title=The Last Picture Show Director And Sopranos Actor Peter Bogdanovich Is Dead At 82|date=January 6, 2022}}</ref> That same year, a copy of his original cut of ''[[She's Funny That Way (film)|She's Funny That Way]]'', originally titled ''Squirrels to the Nuts'', was found on eBay.<ref name="Best">{{Cite web|url=https://tremblesighwonder.com/2022/01/20/you-saved-one-of-my-best-pictures-my-adventures-with-peter-bogdanovichs-lost-last-picture-show/|title = "You Saved One of My Best Pictures": My Adventures with Peter Bogdanovich and his Lost, Last Picture Show|date = January 20, 2022|first=James|last=Kenney|accessdate=May 4, 2022}}</ref> In the wake of the director's passing, the cut was shown at New York's [[Museum of Modern Art]] beginning on March 28, 2022.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kenigsberg|first=Ben|date=March 25, 2022|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/movies/peter-bogdanovich-squirrels-to-the-nuts.html|title=Peter Bogdanovich Had a Vision for This Film. Now It's Finally Being Seen.|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 28, 2022}}</ref>

Weeks before his death, Bogdanovich collaborated with [[Kim Basinger]] to create ''LIT Project 2: Flux'', a first of its kind short film made available on the [[Ethereum]] [[blockchain]] as a [[non-fungible token]]. The project was scheduled to be released on January 25, 2022.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/peter-bogdanovich-kim-basinger-lit-project-2-flux-nft-film-january-25-release-ethereum-blockchain-1234913057/ |title=Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show: NFT 'LIT Project 2 Flux' Starring Kim Basinger Set For January 25 Release Through Ethereum Blockchain |date=2022-01-14 |access-date=2022-01-26}}</ref> He also wrote an as-yet unreleased book called ''Five American Icons'' featuring long interviews with [[Arthur Miller]], [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Jack Nicholson]] and [[Clint Eastwood]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Sereda |first=Elisabeth |title=Peter Bogdanovich The Last Interview full length |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJiOgoogKrc&si=uFpFHbMoYUdJHBy3 |website=[[YouTube]] |publisher=[[Golden Globes]] |language=en |format=video |date=January 21, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Meher"/> and was working on developing a new screenplay, with the help of author Sam Kashner, titled ''Our Love Is Here to Stay'' about composers [[George Gershwin|George]] and [[Ira Gershwin]].<ref name="AirMail">{{cite web|last=Kashner|first=Sam|url=https://airmail.news/issues/2022-1-15/his-last-picture-show|title=His Last Picture Show: My Year with Peter Bogdanovich|website=Air Mail|date=January 15, 2022|access-date=June 29, 2023}}</ref> According to Louise Stratten, after they had finished the script, [[Guillermo del Toro]] was involved to produce the film at [[Netflix]].<ref name="Austin">{{cite web |last=Linklater |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Linklater |title=Richard Linklater on Peter Bogdanovich's NICKELODEON with special guest Louise Stratten |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkn3EBHRdo0 |website=[[YouTube]] |publisher=[[Austin Film Society]] |language=en |format=video |date=September 19, 2022}}</ref> Stratten also noted that, prior to his death, Bogdanovich had completed his memoirs, which he wanted to call ''All I Wanna Do is Direct''.<ref name="Austin"/>