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Peter Bogdanovich arrives at the Venice premiere of She’s Funny Like That Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images The 71st Venice film festival might bill itself as a “festival of discovery” but it can still find some space for the lions of yesterday. Missing believed defunct, the veteran director Peter Bogdanovich rode into town like the ancient mariner. He arrived via water taxi, trailing clouds of glory. Few film-makers enjoyed such an early run of success as Bogdanovich, whose hit movies The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon established him as one of the leading lights of 1970s American cinema. Few, too, suffered such an ignominious fall from grace. “Looking back, ...