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March 29, 2005
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich:
Jeff Bridges and Cybil Shepherd are so young, and that's not even mentioning Ellen Burstyn.
A while back I wanted to see what this whole Cinema Paradiso thing was all about. I had heard such great things about it and it turns out to be cloyingly sweet, pandering to the audience about how much it loves movies. There aren't as many movies in the Last Picture Show, but it has a reverence for cinema that Paridiso just didn't get. The first shots of Cybil Shepherd or Cloris Leachman are all little monuments to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
And it's not even really about movies.
13/15
Posted by bing at March 29, 2005 05:11 PM