The Last Picture Show (1971)
Director Peter Bogdanovich and writer Larry McMurtry examine
the passing of an American way of life in this artfully assured
and elegiac film about the residents of a dying small town in
Texas.
Both Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson won Oscars for their
performances in what was also Cybill Shepherd's first feature film
(and we got to see a lot of her).
Filmed in glorious black and white, The Last Picture Show
was in fact not the last - a sequel called Texasville was
made twenty years later.
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