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: LEACHMAN,CLORIS
Primary Contributor: Shepherd, Cybill
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 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: The Peyton Place of the South
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who buys the Mayberry image of Southern small town life will be greatly shocked after watching this movie. Anarene is definitely no Puritan utopia. The town's residents include adulterers, sex-obsessed teenagers, and even a pedophile, who happens to be the minister's son. This film just goes to show that you cannot always believe what's on the surface. Few films expose small town hypocrisy better than this one, while at the same time treating the characters with respect. This difference is what sets this film about from the typical teenage sex comedies, which are not worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as this cinematic classic.
The performances are all outstanding, but the performances of Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman are especially noteworthy. It is not difficult to figure out why both won Oscars for their roles. No one but Ben Johnson could have played Sam the Lion. Even John Wayne couldn't have pulled it off. Cloris Leachman's dramatic scenes made you forget that she was a regular on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
Summary of The Last Picture Show (Definitive Director's Cut Special Edition)
Like 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 ShannonStory of teenagers in a small Texas town just prior to the hero leaving for Korea and the closing of the town's movie theater.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD
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