The Last Picture Show
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else. From TMDB
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60 of 177 · most liked first#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilm "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
unlabelledView post →Cloris Leachman was always a character in the Mary Tyler Moore multiverse, but when I saw her in The Last Picture Show, she was a proper revelation. My favorite performance in a movie full of all-time performances. youtu.be/QuFlZ8m88gs?...
unlabelledView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW boxd.it/cLrqA3 Incisive screenplay treats every character, however minor, with empathetic eye. Authentic portrait of dying small town America is infused with sadness. Absolutely stellar cast, one of cinema's best. Love! #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 549
unlabelledView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #MarchMovieChallenge Mar-02 Movie that takes place in Texas that is NOT Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Last Picture Show (1971)
unlabelledView post →In 1966 Larry McMurtry's great The Last Picture Show was published; in 1971 Peter Bogdanovich's great film came out staring, among others, handsome Jeff Bridges. In '87 came McMurtry's okay sequel & in '90 Bogdanovich put out a mediocre Texasville film. The best part was Jeff in Jockey y-fronts.
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich BOTD 7/30/1939 Targets (1968) The Last Picture Show (1971) Paper Moon (1973) Mask (1985) Bonus 📺: As actor, played Dr. Melfi's therapist on The Sopranos. #filmsky 🎥
unlabelledView post →Larry McMurtry (with scenes from the Peter Bogdanovich film "The Last Picture Show". McMurtry coauthored the screenplay with Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's 1966 novel of the same name) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Larry McMurtry (with scenes from the Peter Bogdanovich film "The Last Picture Show". McMurtry coauthored the screenplay with Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's 1966 novel of the same name) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →On the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we spend some quality time with Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/4lsQ...
unlabelledView post →One movie a day for 365 days. Just the movies I love. 34/365: The Last Picture Show marks the beginning of an era of adult, unconventional moviemaking (along with Five Easy Pieces). Furthermore, how could I not love the film that gave Cybill her first break?
unlabelledView post →Latest read (audio), The Last Picture Show (1966) by Larry McMurtry; packs just as much emotional wallop as the film. Disillusioned, heartbroken, lonely characters trapped in an isolated, nowhere Texas town where life peaks by age 20. May not sound 'fun' but it's a terrific book. #BookSky
unlabelledView post →Post a movie that starts with the word THE The Last Picture Show (1971)
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971). Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges. Rewatching all-time fave about coming-of-age in small town USA. Is there such a thing as THE perfect American movie? I wouldn't argue against this one. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 549
unlabelledView post →John's caff in Sandy opposite where I used to live as a child on what was still then the Great North Rd. Photo taken yrs later obv when boarded up and petrol pumps gone. Why yes, The Last Picture Show is my favourite movie of all time as it happens.
unlabelledView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 8 🐻 about a place you visited "Texas Flood" (1983), Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 💫 i visited Archer City, TX because it was where my favorite movie "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was shot. that's me near The Royal youtu.be/OQuY7dHfWrM?...
unlabelledView post →On the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we spend some quality time with Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show: open.spotify.com/episode/4lsQ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... A movie often described as being about two guys is better understood as a study of four women
unlabelledView post →just saw The Last Picture Show (1971) for the first time, and it’s the perfect movie?? why haven’t I seen this before?? hello??
unlabelledView post →Disused signal box at Sandy, 1973, 5 yrs after the Oxford-Cambridge branch line closed down and rendered it redundant. It manned a rarely used dirt track that led down to an abandoned brick works and not much else. Why, yes, The Last Picture Show is my favourite film of all time, since you asked.
unlabelledView post →FNF prez @eddiemuller.bsky.social responds to film noir fan questions fielded by our Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this edition, we discuss diegetic music, “The Last Picture Show”, Roger Corman, 'Sudden Fear”, Linda Fiorentino, and more. youtu.be/R9rZtiwejyE?... #filmnoir #noiralley
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971). Damn this film, hits on a deep level. Sam the Lion's monologue is absolutely haunting.
unlabelledView post →I will never forget watching The Last Picture Show for the first time in my mid-teens. (I think it was on BBC 2 on a Sunday night film slot.) Man, it blew me away.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday to director and film historian PETER BOGDANOVICH. 🎂 After THE LAST PICTURE SHOW deservedly found acclaim, he feared it would be the only film he'd be remembered for. Orson Welles wisely told him, “My dear boy, you only need one.” 🎬 #MovieSky
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich BOTD 7/30/1939 Targets (1968) The Last Picture Show (1971) Paper Moon (1973) Mask (1985) Bonus 📺: As actor, played Dr. Melfi's therapist on The Sopranos. #filmsky 🎥
unlabelledView post →Ellen Burstyn & Cloris Leachman were both nominated for Academy Awards for supporting roles in The Last Picture Show. Both were amazing; it's very much an actors' film. Leachman won. 📷 Bill Eppridge for Life, 1972
unlabelledView post →On the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we spend some quality time with Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show: open.spotify.com/episode/4lsQ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
unlabelledView post →Can’t believe I’ve never seen the Last Picture Show before tonight. What a fantastic film: beautifully bleak filming and storyline & a great cast. Weird seeing actors like Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd when they were so young.
unlabelledView post →Tonight on TCM #TCM THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) A great film -- one of the vanguards of the New Hollywood. From the fabulous filmmaking team of Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Essential viewing. 🎥
unlabelledView post →Tonight on TCM #TCM THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Larry McMurty's great novel made into a great film by Peter Bogdanovich. Production Design by Polly Platt. A masterpiece. 🎥
unlabelledView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 327/365 Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show (1971) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChalleng
unlabelledView post →Larry McMurtry (with scenes from the Peter Bogdanovich film "The Last Picture Show". McMurtry coauthored the screenplay with Bogdanovich) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Ellen Burstyn in "The Last Picture Show" - BOTD www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ja...
unlabelledView post →Red River (out today, 1948) is the last film shown at the dying movie theater in Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, and what a great choice: Howard Hawks’ episodic cattle drive is such a beautifully majestic film that it’s simply stunning on the big screen. Another great role for Montgomery Clift
unlabelledView post →#filmsky We can quibble over the best film by birthday boy Peter Bogdanovich; I pick the glorious The Last Picture Show. You? How about his most underrated work? Anything after Paper Moon qualifies; my vote goes to his charming, funny, ultimately tragic Daisy Miller, victim of many critics’ knives
unlabelledView post →"Drama is easy. Comedy's hard." 🎬 #PeterBogdanovich, American film director and producer (The Last Picture Show; Paper Moon), was #BOTD 30 July 1939. #Film #Filmmaking
unlabelledView post →Picking up my copy of The Last Picture Show was I think the first time ever that I’ve picked up a movie from B&N…or anywhere really…where the person working there actually gave a shit. We were comparing our pickups and talking about movies for a bit and it was kind of remarkable honestly.
unlabelledView post →1. FINAL CUT I am a simple man. Sorry to be so predictable, but Charles Burns drops new work. I buy it. There's much here that's amazing, but I keep thinking about Burns drawing a scene (in B&W) from the movie THE LAST PICTURE SHOW while placing his own narrative on top of it. Great book.
unlabelledView post →i find The Last Picture Show to be a weirdly rewatchable movie
unlabelledView post →for umpteen other reasons including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, and The Last Picture Show. And then there was Phyllis Nagy’s 2005 film Mrs. Harris. Ben Kingsley had put up a notice on set stating that, at all times, he was to be addressed as Sir Ben. He drove to the airport to collect 2/3
unlabelledView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge March 2 - movie that takes place in Texas that is NOT Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Last Picture Show #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Ellen Burstyn & Cloris Leachman were both nominated for Academy Awards for supporting roles in The Last Picture Show. Both were amazing; it's very much an actors' film. Leachman won. 📷 Bill Eppridge for Life, 1972
unlabelledView post →There's a bit in the new Charles Burns book, Final Cut, where a 1970s horror buff sees The Last Picture Show and becomes ADHD fixated on it. Seeing a legitimately great movie breaks his brain and he cannot process. Anyway that's everyone today when there's a pretty good line in a Marvel show
unlabelledView post →I can never tell the difference between any of the Bottoms brothers. There was the one in The Last Picture Show, the one who played George W Bush a lot, the one in that one Vietnam war film… Quite honestly, it could probably be the same brother. 🤣 #frightclub
unlabelledView post →It's our 10th anniversary and 500th episode, so we celebrated by breaking format: This week, we discuss the movie we're named for, Peter Bogdanovich's forlorn, star-packed 1971 drama THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, then revive the ol' Barnyard Buzzers for an NPS trivia game. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
unlabelledView post →55 years ago: The Last Picture Show (US) High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a... 1971-10-03 #Film #PeterBogdanovich #TimothyBottoms #CybillShepherd #JeffBridges https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25188
unlabelledView post →Watching the 40 movies from the AFI 100 I haven’t seen and doing studies of each! Ben-Hur: Great chariot scene. Yankee Doodle Dandy: Who knew Cagney’s a song and dance man? The Last Picture Show: Fabulous movie. It’s A Wonderful Life: It’s fine. #art #cinema #filmsky #movies #painting #watercolor
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unlabelledView post →Remembering the great Eileen Brennan, distinctively brilliant Emmy-winning & Oscar-nominated actress, on her 94th birthday, beloved for roles in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, SCARECROW, THE STING, MURDER BY DEATH, PRIVATE BENJAMIN (film/TV show), CLUE, IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK, THIRTYSOMETHING, and more.
unlabelledView post →There are several reasons The Last Picture Show is my favourite film, some to do with the sense of a bigger world going on somewhere out there, some to do with 'sweeping boy' and compliant girls and a lot more to do with landscape and light.
unlabelledView post →What was your 1st R-rated movie in a theater? And how old were you? Mine was a pretty awesome choice: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, which haunts me to this day & still stands up as a classic. The pool party scene was an eye-opener. My mom dropped me off at the theater to see it—I was 13. #movies #growingup
unlabelledView post →For a less traumatic answer, The Last Picture Show. My favourite film. I've shown it to a lot of people for their first time, but to get that feeling myself again would be amazing.
unlabelledView post →The Last Picture Show In the latest Freakshow we look at the Bannon Epstein texts, their bromance and plans for a movie. www.americanfreakshow.news/p/the-last-p...
unlabelledView post →We're holding four more fundraisers before we move out. See a great film with an audience and help us move! THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: 1/18 at 6pm BRINGING UP BABY: 1/23 at 715pm THE GRAND ILLUSION: 1/26 at 6pm CINEMA PARADISO: 1/31 at 7pm Tix are running low, so get 'em now: grandillusioncinema.org
unlabelledView post →Join us on Jan. 18 for a fundraiser screening of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. See a beautiful restoration of an American classic & help us move! This screening is generously sponsored by longtime Grand Illusion patron Michelle Byrd in loving memory of Bill Kennedy. grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-las...
unlabelledView post →Wanna connect with more people who love film! Here are 15 movies that have stuck with me throughout my life—no particular order: 1. The Last Picture Show – Beautifully captures the loneliness and fading dreams of small-town life. #movies
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One tv show 📺 The Idiot by Elif Batman The Last Picture Show Piggy by Peter Mcpoland We Are Who We Are
unlabelledView post →Name a black and white film made after 1970 The Last Picture Show
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday today to actress, singer and former model Cybill Lynne Shepherd, born February 18, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee! Her feature film debut and breakthrough role came as "Jacy Farrow" in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971), alongside Jeff Bridges.
unlabelledView post →Last night's movie: THe Last Picture Show. It's like a B&W American Graffiti with a Hank Williams soundtrack and more nudity. The actors look like kids, because in 1971, that's what they were. The director, too.
unlabelledView post →I watched THE LAST PICTURE SHOW for the first time yesterday, knowing full well its reputation as a modern classic. But I'm confessin'... #FilmSky letterboxd.com/danielmudfor...
unlabelledView post →Timothy Bottoms and Chloris Leachman in the devastating last scene from The Last Picture Show, for which Leachman #botd in 1928, won an Oscar. Equally great at comedy in Mel Brooks films or as the irrepressible Phyllis. At 82, she competed on Dancing with the Stars. #filmsky #moviesky #tv
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