Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) play football, go to the movies at the Royal Theater, hang out at the pool hall owned by local elder statesman Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), and lust after rich tease Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd in her film debut). As the year passes, Sonny learns about the pitfalls and compromises of adulthood through an affair with his coach's wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman) and a thwarted elopement with Jacy after she dumps Duane. Following two tragic deaths, and with Duane gone to Korea and Jacy packed off to college in Dallas, Sonny is left behind in Anarene, wise enough to absorb the life lessons of Sam the Lion and Jacy's mother Lois (Ellen Burstyn). He is determined to honor Sam's legacy as the town's conscience, despite a telling sign of incipient communal disintegration: the closing of the Royal Theater after a final showing of Howard Hawks's Red River. Paying tribute to classical Hollywood directors like Hawks and John Ford, Bogdanovich used old-time cinematographer Robert Surtees and shot The Last Picture Show in crisp black-and-white, with a restrained style devoid of the kind of "new wave" techniques (jump cuts, zooms, and jittery hand-held camerawork) used by such contemporaries as Arthur Penn, Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, and Martin Scorsese. As in such Ford films as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Bogdanovich relies on careful visual composition in deep focus to help communicate the regret over the passing of an era. Hailed as one of the best films by a young director since Citizen Kane (1941), The Last Picture Show premiered at the New York Film Festival and went on to become a hit. It was also nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Larry McMurtry's and Bogdanovich's adaptation of McMurtry's novel. John Ford stalwart Johnson won Supporting Actor and Leachman won Supporting Actress, beating out their cohorts Bridges and Burstyn. For an audience steeped in movie history and caught up in the chaotic 1971 present, The Last Picture Show presented a nostalgic look backward that was not so much an escape from the present as a coming to terms with what the present had lost. Its 1990 sequel Texasville, in which Bridges and Shepherd played later incarnations of their original characters, was not as successful. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Release Date The Last Picture Show Oct 22, 1971 Limited
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Actors For The Last Picture Show

Timothy Bottoms,Jeff Bridges,Cybill Shepherd,Ben Johnson,Cloris Leachman,Ellen Burstyn,Antonia Bogdanovich,Samuel Bottoms,Eileen Brennan,Gary Brockette,Loyd Catlett,Barclay Doyle,Jessie Lee Fulton,Clu Gulager,Joye Hash,Joe Heathcock,John Hillerman,Helena Humann,Gordon Hurst,Kimberly Hyde

Genres The Last Picture Show : Drama,Classics

Visitor Ranting & Critics For The Last Picture Show

User Ranting The Last Picture Show : 4.1
User Percentage For The Last Picture Show : 88 %
User Count Like for The Last Picture Show : 12,751
All Critics Ranting For The Last Picture Show : 8.9
All Critics Count For The Last Picture Show : 46
All Critics Percentage For The Last Picture Show : 100 %

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Movie Overview For The Last Picture Show
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.

TagLine The Last Picture Show

Anarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed...
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Review For The Last Picture Show

It's meant to make you feel sad for what's lost, but a vitality throbs through it.
Joshua Rothkopf-Time Out New York

Director Peter Bogdanovich has seen Anarene, Texas, in the cinematic terms of 1951 -- the langorous dissolves, the strong chiaroscuro, the dialogue that starts with bickering and ends at confessional.
Stefan Kanfer-TIME Magazine

Notre Dame professor Edward Fischer has said that 'the best films, like the best books, tell how it is to be human under certain circumstances'. Larry McMurtry did a beautiful job of this.
Variety Staff-Variety

It's all fairly calculated, though Bogdanovich knows how to cast actors and highlight character turns.
Dave Kehr-Chicago Reader

Superb performances all round add to the charm of this fine, if now unfashionable film.
Geoff Andrew-Time Out

The film is above all an evocation of mood. It is about a town with no reason to exist, and people with no reason to live there. The only hope is in transgression.
Roger Ebert-Chicago Sun-Times

Classic American film has heavy themes and sex.
Brian Costello-Common Sense Media

[VIDEO ESSAY] A masterpiece by any standard, "The Last Picture Show" (1971) presents an emotionally apocalyptic reckoning of an America that has lost its way. The subtext-the film was made at the height of the Vietnam War - is hard to miss.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com

For the members of the New Hollywood, it was a briefly opened window on revitalized filmmaking and venturesome storytelling.
Budd Wilkins-Slant Magazine

Bogdanovich's masterpiece, it's an elegy for a vanishing America...
Philip French-Guardian [UK]

Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 movie is a coming-of-age story, a portrait of small-town Texas, and one of the all-time great American elegies.
Anthony Quinn-Independent

Its portrait of a floundering community is the film's strongest virtue.
Derek Malcolm-This is London

Unmissable.
Peter Bradshaw-Guardian [UK]

This is a masterclass in how to create fully rounded characters and then give them real lives to lead.
David Parkinson-Radio Times

Peter Bogdanovich's eerie homage to olden times and movies, one of the key Hollywood films of the early 1970s, looks ever more crisply stunning and remote.
Tim Robey-Daily Telegraph

A worthy tribute to Bogdanovich's idols, Orson Welles and John Ford.
Philip Kemp-Total Film

The director's most important film.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews

a world where the parental figures are never the real parents and almost everyone in plain view is still in some way a kid, regardless of the number of years they've lived.
Chris Cabin-Filmcritic.com

Em seu momento mais sólido como diretor (numa carreira que se auto-destruiria pouco depois), Bogdanovich cria um monumento à melancolia.
Pablo Villaca-Cinema em Cena

Bogdanovich's perfect recreation of the sense of time and place, and his ability to mix wit with poignancy that make this such a charming, timeless film.
Kim Newman-Empire Magazine

A poignant evocation of small-town life in fifties Texas.
-Film4

The Last Picture Show is competent movie-making and probably deserves an audience. But its predictability and its calculation mar it for me. The values seem to me to be more contrived humanity instead of the real thing.
Tony Macklin-tonymacklin.net