Editing Peter Bogdanovich (section)

===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>