The Last Picture Show (1971)
Country: US
Technical: bw 118m
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
In an isolated Texas town, just before the Korean War, two tearaways lose their virginity against the backdrop of the closure of the community's only picturehouse.
Review:
A film with a real sense of changing times and of loss, of innocence, of youth, of experience at its most indelible. The shots of windswept, dusty streets speak potently of lives starved of affection; the same is mirrored in the ageing of characters played by Burstyn, Johnson and Leachman. The devil is in the detail: the preacher's boy, repressed and bullied at school, who turns child molester; the tank whither Sonny takes Jacy, in the hope of living a moment as intense as Sam's with her mother; the simple-minded poolhall sweep blithely wearing his cap at Sam's funeral. Surtees's black and white cinematography is crystal sharp, conveying the remorseless glare of the Texan sun. Bogdanovich never made a better film than this; it is everything American Graffiti ain't.
Country: US
Technical: bw 118m
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
In an isolated Texas town, just before the Korean War, two tearaways lose their virginity against the backdrop of the closure of the community's only picturehouse.
Review:
A film with a real sense of changing times and of loss, of innocence, of youth, of experience at its most indelible. The shots of windswept, dusty streets speak potently of lives starved of affection; the same is mirrored in the ageing of characters played by Burstyn, Johnson and Leachman. The devil is in the detail: the preacher's boy, repressed and bullied at school, who turns child molester; the tank whither Sonny takes Jacy, in the hope of living a moment as intense as Sam's with her mother; the simple-minded poolhall sweep blithely wearing his cap at Sam's funeral. Surtees's black and white cinematography is crystal sharp, conveying the remorseless glare of the Texan sun. Bogdanovich never made a better film than this; it is everything American Graffiti ain't.
Country: US
Technical: bw 118m
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
In an isolated Texas town, just before the Korean War, two tearaways lose their virginity against the backdrop of the closure of the community's only picturehouse.
Review:
A film with a real sense of changing times and of loss, of innocence, of youth, of experience at its most indelible. The shots of windswept, dusty streets speak potently of lives starved of affection; the same is mirrored in the ageing of characters played by Burstyn, Johnson and Leachman. The devil is in the detail: the preacher's boy, repressed and bullied at school, who turns child molester; the tank whither Sonny takes Jacy, in the hope of living a moment as intense as Sam's with her mother; the simple-minded poolhall sweep blithely wearing his cap at Sam's funeral. Surtees's black and white cinematography is crystal sharp, conveying the remorseless glare of the Texan sun. Bogdanovich never made a better film than this; it is everything American Graffiti ain't.