Peter Bogdanovich? A little overrated.
So, finally saw The Last Picture Show the other night. For the first half of the film, it was somewhat akin to having your gonads devoured by wild boars. However, a little after halfway through,, it starts to pick up, and by the end it turned in a fairly respectable performance. It's weird seeing young Randy Quaid and Jeff Bridges, but overall, this film gets a little too much credit. It got lucky, coming in at the advent of the "gritty realism" phase of the seventies, and thus gets put in with films that followed and were much better. Still, nice to have it under the belt. And it beats having to watch Torn Curtain for the 10th time in as many days. Occasionally, film theory can be a very ugly beast.
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Naked Sybil Shephard.
Posted by: B. Alec | December 16, 2005 10:57 AM
Have you seen the "Piano Teacher," where Isabelle Huppert is cutting herself- in the chooch!? hard to watch.
Posted by: Carl | December 16, 2005 12:39 PM
True, but "Piano Teacher" is a great movie.
And true, naked Sybil Shepard. Glad she took care of that before Moonlighting rolled around.
Posted by: Planetarium | December 17, 2005 04:22 PM