Tag: the last picture show
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Texasville (1990)
Befallen by hard times on both sides of the camera, Peter Bogdanovich received an opportunity to revisit a familiar place and he took it. Texasville, the sequel to Bogdanovich’s break-out hit The Last Picture Show, is based on Larry McMurtry’s sequel novel, but the tone and feeling of this picture is a far cry from…
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
Before traveling to Texas to shoot The Last Picture Show, an adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel, Peter Bogdanovich edited together a documentary about one of his Hollywood heroes. The documentary Directed by John Ford, compiled of various interviews Bogdanovich conducted with Ford and his acting troupe and narrated by Orson Welles, premiered a few weeks…