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4 de jul. de 2004 · When "The Last Picture Show" opened in 1971, it created a sensation. I saw it on its first engagement in New York, where audiences crowded in with the eagerness reserved, these days, for teenage action pictures. It felt new and old at the same time. Bogdanovich, a film critic and acolyte of Welles, shot in black and white, which gave the film a ...
High school seniors and best friends Sonny and Duane live in a dying 1950s Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating local beauty Jacy, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach’s wife, Ruth. As graduation nears, both boys contemplate escaping the dead-end town to build a better life elsewhere.
It isn't just a matter of putting in Jo Stafford and Hank Williams. "The Last Picture Show" has been described as an evocation of the classic Hollywood narrative film. It is more than that; it is a belated entry in that age -- the best film of 1951, you might say. Using period songs and decor to create nostalgia is familiar enough, but to ...
While Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business, each boy struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else. Drama 1971 1 hr 58 min. 98%. 17+. R. Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd. Director Peter Bogdanovich.
Synopsis. One morning in November 1951, Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges), co-captains of the dismal high school football team in the small dying town of Anarene, Texas shrug off insults about the team's last game of the season. Sonny relaxes with his friends, Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), the aging but still vital ...
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, The Last Picture Show garnered eight Academy Award nominations and was hailed as the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.A surprisingly frank, bittersweet drama of social and sexual mores in small-town Texas, the film features a ...
The Last Picture Show is a ground-breaking coming-of-age drama released in 1971. The movie was directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich. The story takes place in a small Texas town in the ...
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