Last Picture Show

Pros: Directing, Photography, Acting
Cons: A bit slow for us action/adventure fans but still worth watching

I got a feeling for the blues, oh Lord, since my baby said goodbye. Hank Williams

A Texas town, dying on the vine, and being slowly blown away by the relentless wind strongly reminds the viewer of the great westerns by Ford and Hawks...

Pros: performances, cinematography, subject matter, DVD
Cons: none

Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 "The Last Picture Show" remains one of the masterpieces of the American new wave. It impressed pretty much everyone (including me) when it was released, and looks at least as good a third of a century later. It is one of ...

Pros: Wonderful directing, acting, writing and cinematography
Cons: None

This write-off is being hosted by susidee 34 and SurgRN911. I want to thank them for their efforts although choosing a movie for the review was more difficult than I thought it would be. I mean if I were Mohammed Ali, there'd be a pretty clear choice...

Pros: What a crew! "Picture Show" launched a lot of careers.
Cons: It's black and white and uses radio sound tracks, but that enhances the film.

If you only watch or rewatch one old classic movie this year, then pick up The Last Picture Show. It is one of the most haunting flicks to come out of Hollywood, and it launched the careers of many of the greats of today. Picture Show ...

Pros: Stark cinematography, brooding performances, brilliant period piece.
Cons: Depressing. (This is a reposting of a deleted review I mistakenly put under "books")

Funny how something as routine as watching the Comedy Central soap spoof “That’s My Bush” last night brought me back to thinking about my favorite movie.

The common denominator that triggered the thought was actor Timothy Bottoms, who...

Pros: Powerful cinematography, solid casting, dark script, intense
Cons: Slow in parts, unexpectedly somber

I didn't expect The Last Picture Show to be so somber. Truthfully, I was expecting yet another cheery 1950s flick filled with one cliche after another, one celebrating "the good ol' days" when no one had to lock the front door and one where all of...

Pros: Stellar performances
Cons: Weak plot, script, characters. It is very slow, boring, and drags itself through the plot.

What attracted me to The Last Picture Show was that it was a story about two boys growing into manhood in small-town Texas. The film could have had been simply that: A story about two boys growing up in Anarene, Texas in 1951. The disappointing thing is ...

Pros: cinematography, cast, direction
Cons: story is sometimes aimless, characters are sometimes inconsistent

Peter Bogdanovich had been a struggling actor and sometime director before he was given his big break, with the screen adaption of Larry McMurtry's novel The Last Picture Show. Set in a dusty West Texas small town, circa 1950, the film drew...

Pros: Risky take on teenage years. Great performances, Cloris Leachman especially
Cons: Sometimes the story seems indifferent to some minor characters, who sometimes become drastically crucial

Peter Bogdanivich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's beloved novel is a study of several different people in a somewhat ghost town of Texas.

It focuses mainly on the lives of insouciant teenagers on the brink of being adults. The work here is so...

Pros: Great acting, directing, screenplay
Cons: Profound movie, not suitable for casual entertainment

Perhaps quite by accident, this movie is one of the greatest American films ever made. Like perhaps all great movies it exists on a number of levels. It is in the first instance about the subject of its title, the demise of the neighborhood movie...