The last picture show [videorecording] / Columbia ; a BBS production ; directed by Peter Bogdanovich ; screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich ; produced by Stephen J. Friedman.
Last picture show : a look back. Picture this. Discussion with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.
Notes:
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Randy Quaid. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Box set includes accompanying guide, America lost and found : the BBS story (111 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.). Issued as part of a 9-DVD boxed set with: Head; Easy rider (2 discs: feature film and supplemental material); Five easy pieces; Drive, he said; A safe place; The king of Marvin Gardens. Special features: disc 1. two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich; theatrical trailers. Disc 2. Two "making-of" documentaries: "The last picture show : a look back" (1999) and Picture this (1990); "A discussion with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich", a 2009 Q&A; screen tests and location footage; excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the new Hollywood.
Contents:
Disc one. The film -- Disc two. The supplements.
Summary:
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
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