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The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)

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- The Best Last Picture Show
A black and white portrait of a dying Texas town complete with tired businessman, bored wife, all the problems of adolescence in a place where nothing goes on. The spectrum of life from young man/woman hood to adults trying to make meaning of life (and concluding that adultery is the only way), to a whole used-up life expiring, is brilliantly portrayed with obliterating dust, emptiness, banging screen doors. The lack of color is as it should be. The only "color" in their lives is a saucy waitress who dishes out the sustenance of life, on plates and verbally. Superb direction, fresh acting, perfect casting. The entire action is summed up by a mute teenager who is "taken care of" by the town. This boy "sweeps up" the town as his way of returning care. He, too, is eliminated, by lack of understanding, by lack of sensitivity. Brilliant, memorable film.

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- Haunted by The Last Picture Show
At the time I saw this movie I was probably under age 30. Didn't really pay much attention to the story line but loved many of the old songs remembered from childhood. I saw it on TV but was in-and-out of the room in which it was playing. In the very last scene, a radio can be heard in the background: a comic recording (a la Arlo Guthrie) telling a very funny story of a town's use of Grandma's lye soap. At that point I lost all interest in the movie characters as I had been looking all my adult life for that recording. I turned up the volume to hear the very little of the recording that was included and missed the dialogue between the characters.

I continued to search for the recording (it may have been entitled "It's in the Book") off-and-on for many more years with no luck. After reading so many of the reviews here I want to sit down and watch the entire movie again. I will still love the music but it's now more than 35 years later, I'm far more mature, and I'm certain my rating will be higher than that of so long ago. I shall purchase both the movie and the soundtrack. No one has indicated anything on the soundtrack other than songs, but I'll settle for that.

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- The Last Picture Show
Moving, mature, powerful and thought provoking is The Last Picture Show as it leads us through the lives and scandles of ordinary, fault-ridden people in a small, poor, dusty, Texas town in the 1950s getting in touch with their career and sexual identies. Excellent cast, excellent direction, excellent black and white photography. Very memorable.

I remember I first saw "The Last Picture Show" when I was young--probably attracted by news that it showed some full-frontal nudity, which it does, but "The Last Picture Show" is no porno flick by a long shot, and any nudity which exists is for the conveyance of the story, not to sexually arouse the audience.

When I was young, but still old enough to get into the movie, I wasn't mature enough to fully understand it. It's almost like you have to be over 35 years old to appreciate it as the work of art it is. I'm in my 50s now and very glad to have this masterpiece in my collection.

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- Blown Away in a New Age
This is Peter Bogdanovich's Citizen Kane. He has made films since Last Picture Show, but gradually he faded and was more appreciated as a film critic. Orson Welles had been told by a friend that it was too bad he did the great one first. And so it goes.

Filmed in black and white, the small, crudy Texas town from the early 50's holds secrets that a former resident, Larry McNulty tells in a series or novels. The characters are indeed from McNulty's youth. Either your family hit oil or you lived in dirt. There's no in-between. The kids, rich and poor, attend the same high school and the football team is everyone's passion. The boys are real excited about what's under those flouncy dresses. Jacy, the town prom queen-rich girl is testing her sexual powers, driving the poor boys, Tim Bottoms and Jeff Bridges to fistcuffs. She dumps 'em both finally to orgy with her own kind, the newly-rich teens and their mansions in a dust bowl.

Themes of lost love, the wrong man to marry, the excitment and saddness of backseat sexuality, the dirt poor prostitues, and the good old boys collide with emotional deprivation. Noone is more deprived than Cloris Leachman as the wife of a secretly gay football coach. Tim Bottoms has a May-August affair with the woman. Her response with the coffee maker after Tim's very brief marriage to manipulative Jacy is now a well deserved classic you have to see. They still show that one in acting class.

Ben Johnson sums it up, sitting on a log he talks of lost love, a forgotten time of Texas men and women, fierce and proud, but now blown away in a new age.

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- Take em to Missouri Matt!
The truest to life movie with the most cast of realistic actors ever. You can see this movie in so many colors -- this baby is both the simplest and the most complex plot, all at once. Every theme, each one of them, is very familiar to us whether we like/know it or not.

Someone below did a fine job of saying this movie embraces life in its full awkwardness. And the b/w makes it more seem more vintage.

And forget Texasville, this is a good prequel to how Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski got started in life, with Walter Sobchack in reversal as Sonny Crawford returning from 'nam, Donnie as a reincarnation of baseball-cap Billy and of course Sam the Lion coming back as the Stranger, with Dylan/CCR songs instead of Hank Williams. Only the game is now bowling. Besides that, you've got the impulsive, semi-androgynous Cloris Leachman as the abandoned and furtive Ruth Popper in the form of pederast Jesus Quintana.

My only question is why isn't there a Criterion made out of this yet?

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