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Legendary director Peter Bogdanovich stopped by the It Happened in Hollywood podcast to share stories about the making of 1971’s The Last Picture Show.
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry. The film's ensemble cast includes Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, and Cybill Shepherd.
In an otherwise glowing review, Pauline Kael criticised The Last Picture Show’s self-conscious referencing of Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride (1950) and Hawks’ Red River in its two cinema-set scenes. 1 Kael’s argument is that these moments draw us out of the film, making us consciously aware of the auteurist credentials and overriding ci...
The film, with its nudity and frank depiction of teenage sexuality—including Cybill Shepherd’s first and only topless scene—absolutely scandalized upright, moral Americans all over the country. Nowhere more so than in Archer City, where it was regarded at the time as a “dirty” movie.
Bogdanovich was at the center of a scandal in 1980, when Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, whom he had begun dating and cast in his film They All Laughed, was murdered by her estranged...
The Last Picture Show depicted teens consumed by the same taboos they’ve always been consumed by. With onscreen nudity an unblinking look at adultery, the film was initially threatened with an X...
But the emotional shoot-out that was The Last Picture Show is history for her now: She and Bogdanovich have reconciled as friends, and she is visiting the set because other fences have been...
Whenever his illustrious career is discussed, one movie that always pops up is the 1971 classic The Last Picture Show. Based on Larry McMurtry’s eponymous novel, the movie explores the very specific sociocultural environment of a small town in Texas during the early 1950s.
The irony isn’t lost in “The Last Picture Show”--partly the story of a movie house falling victim to television--being resurrected on a format that, along with cable and the VCR, threatens ...
For BBS Productions, which has produced a series of poignant contemporary probes — Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and Drive, He Said — The Last Picture Show represents a departure. But it is a look back, which is less nostalgia than a slice of the way it really was.