Editing Peter Bogdanovich (section)

===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>