The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
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Actor: Eileen Brennan, Gary Brockette, Jeff Bridges, Sam Bottoms, Timothy BottomsBrand: Sony
Primary Contributor: Timothy Bottoms
Primary Contributor: Jeff Bridges
Primary Contributor: Shepherd, Cybill
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
Movie Review: Classic American Cinema
Summary: 5 Stars
Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show is a movie about the changing face of America as seen through the eyes of a small town. The film relates the happenings in Anarene,Texas from October 1951 to October 1952. America is changing. The cinema on the corner than had been the hub of life for the small town is giving way to the television age. Into this world comes the senior class of Anarene High School.
School friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) yearn for more than the town has to offer. They also yearn for the prettiest girl in town Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepard). As their lives change we learn of the goings on of the citizens around them: there is Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson)owner of the cinema, the cafe and the pool hall; Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman) the wife of the high school coach who wants more in her life; Lois Farrow (Ellen Burstyn) caught in a world in which she is alone with herself.
The film is episodic but makes its points with ease. The ensemble cast was justly praised and the film was awarded with eight Academy Award nominations. Director Bogdanovich never had a better film than this and the black and white photography by Robert Surtees is almost perfect.
The disc is the definitive director's cut which adds about eight minutes of previously deleted footage. The aspect ratio is 1.85:1 as was the presentation print. The mono sound while not perfect does an adequate job with the dialogue filled script. The extras are the hour long documentary The Last Picture Show: A Look Back which features interviews with Bogdanovich and the cast; a short theatrical Re-release featurette and some talent files.
This film deserves to be on the shelf of any serious movie lover.
Summary of The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
About the social and sexual mores of the residents of a small texas town. Special features: the last picture show: a look back 65-minute documentary: theatrical re-release featurette: subtitles: english spanish portuguese chinese korean thai: production notes: interactive menus: talent files and more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/06/2007 Starring: Timothy Bottoms Ellen Burstyn Run time: 126 minutes Rating: R Director: Peter BogdanovichLike Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and The Graduate, The Last Picture Show is one of the signature films of the "New Hollywood" that emerged in the late 1960s and early '70s. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry and lovingly directed by Peter Bogdanovich (who cowrote the script with McMurtry), this 1971 drama has been interpreted as an affectionate tribute to classic Hollywood filmmaking and the great directors (such as John Ford) that Bogdanovich so deeply admired. It's also a eulogy for lost innocence and small-town life, so accurately rendered that critic Roger Ebert called it "the best film of 1951," referring to the movie's one-year time frame, its black-and-white cinematography (by Robert Surtees), and its sparse but evocative visual style. The story is set in the tiny, dying town of Anarene, Texas, where the main-street movie house is about to close for good, and where a pair of high-school football players are coming of age and struggling to define their uncertain futures. There's little to do in Anarene, and while Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) engages in a passionless fling with his football coach's wife (Cloris Leachman), his best friend Duane (Jeff Bridges) enlists for service in the Korean War. Both boys fall for a manipulative high-school beauty (Cybill Shepherd) who's well aware of her sexual allure. But it's not so much what happens in The Last Picture show as how it happens--and how Bogdanovich and his excellent cast so effectively capture the melancholy mood of a ghost town in the making. As Hank Williams sings on the film's evocative soundtrack, The Last Picture Show looks, feels, and sounds like a sad but unforgettably precious moment out of time. --Jeff Shannon
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