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| Nelson_Mandela 05/30/19 3:26:13 PM #188: | #185. The Last Picture Show https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/The_Last_Picture_Show_%28movie_poster%29.jpg Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Genre: Drama, Coming of Age Year: 1971 The Last Picture show reminds me of one of my favorite books ever, 100 Years of Solitude. They both convey a similar atmosphere and tone with a focal point on a single town in its lively prime, slowly decaying into dust. It's a hard thing to achieve so seamlessly, but The Last Picture Show really captures that ephemeral nature of life. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white, this is also another one of my favorite kind of meta-narratives in which an old movie theater acts a symbol for the past/innocence/etc. It's a real subtle way of commenting on a lot of the changes going on in the industry during this time. One last fun oddity about it is how amazing Timothy Stack's lead performance is and then the next big role he gets is...George W. Bush in That's My Bush! thirty years later. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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