The Last Picture Show

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The Last Picture Show

film by Bogdanovich [1971]

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- Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
  … (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Picture Show (1971), and The Big Chill (1983).
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  … (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Picture Show (1971), and The Big Chill (1983).
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- Bob Rafelson
  Films of the 1960s and early 1970s
  …most notably, Peter Bogdanovich’s much-revered The Last Picture Show (1971), for which Rafelson served as an uncredited producer. BBS also produced Rafelson’s follow-up as a director, The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), a melancholy meditation on a pair of brothers whose dreams and dilemmas collide in prerevival Atlantic City, New…
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  …most notably, Peter Bogdanovich’s much-revered The Last Picture Show (1971), for which Rafelson served as an uncredited producer. BBS also produced Rafelson’s follow-up as a director, The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), a melancholy meditation on a pair of brothers whose dreams and dilemmas collide in prerevival Atlantic City, New…
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- Peter Bogdanovich
  Films
  Bogdanovich’s next movie, The Last Picture Show (1971), was a box-office hit that won critical acclaim for its portrayal of sexual mores and social change in a drab Texas town in the 1950s. The bleak drama—which starred Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd as high schoolers coming…
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  Bogdanovich’s next movie, The Last Picture Show (1971), was a box-office hit that won critical acclaim for its portrayal of sexual mores and social change in a drab Texas town in the 1950s. The bleak drama—which starred Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Cybill Shepherd as high schoolers coming…
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- Larry McMurtry
  …The Last Picture Show (1966; film 1971); McMurtry received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. The novel was the first in a series that he continued with Texasville (1987), Duane’s Depressed (1999), When the Light Goes (2007), and Rhino Ranch (2009). McMurtry’s frontier epic, Lonesome Dove (1985; television miniseries…
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  …The Last Picture Show (1966; film 1971); McMurtry received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. The novel was the first in a series that he continued with Texasville (1987), Duane’s Depressed (1999), When the Light Goes (2007), and Rhino Ranch (2009). McMurtry’s frontier epic, Lonesome Dove (1985; television miniseries…
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