Paper Moon (film)
1973
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Jul 4, 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.
The nourishing myth of the Western ("Wagon Master" and "Red River" are among the last offerings at the Royal) is being replaced by nervously hilarious TV programs out of the East, and defeated housewives are reassured they're part of the "Strike It Rich" audience with a heart of gold.
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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- Peter Bogdanovich
- R
- Timothy Bottoms
The Last Picture Show is a masterpiece. It is not merely the best American movie of a rather dreary year; it is the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.
Oct 22, 1971 · The Last Picture Show: Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. With Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson. In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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- Drama, Romance
- Peter Bogdanovich
- 1971-10-22
The Last Picture Show - Metacritic. 1971. R. Columbia Pictures. 1 h 58 m. Summary In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. Drama. Romance.
The Last Picture Show. One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen.
