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FICM mourns the death of Peter Brunette

Film critic and collaborator for The Hollywood Reporter. He was a professor at Wake Forest University where he directed the program in film studies. He wrote and edited seven books on film, including Roberto Rossellini, the definitive study in English of this director's films, a book on François Truffaut's film Shoot the Piano Player, and several books on film theory.

In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book “The Films of Michelangelo AntonionI,” in 1999, ”Martin Scorsese: Interviews” was published by the University of Mississippi Press, and in 2005, the University of Illinois Press published his study of Wong Kar-Wai.

He was also general editor of the Mississippi Interview series -- nearly sixty books have already appeared in this series -- and did voice-over commentary for the dvds of Blow-up, Shoot the Piano Player, and Amarcord.  Brunette wrote frequently for The New York Times Arts & Leisure section, The Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. He was artistic director of the Key Sunday Cinema Club, which has branches in ten U.S. cities.  His latest published work was a book on Michael Haneke and he was writing another about Luchino Visconti.