The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. 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.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich's director's cut, supervised by Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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
- “The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, (1999) and Picture This (1990), documentaries about the making of the film
- 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
- Theatrical trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich's director's cut, supervised by Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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
- “The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, (1999) and Picture This (1990), documentaries about the making of the film
- 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
- Theatrical trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Cast
- Timothy Bottoms
- Sonny Crawford
- Jeff Bridges
- Duane Jackson
- Cybil Shepherd
- Jacy Farrow
- Ben Johnson
- Sam the Lion
- Cloris Leachman
- Ruth Popper
- Ellen Burstyn
- Lois Farrow
- Eileen Brennan
- Genevieve
- Clu Gulager
- Abilene
- Sam Bottoms
- Billy
- Randy Quaid
- Lester Marlow
- Sharon Taggart
- Charlene Duggs
Credits
- Director
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Screenplay
- Larry McMurtry
- Screenplay
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Executive producer
- Bert Schneider
- Producer
- Stephen J. Friedman
- Design
- Polly Platt
- Cinematography
- Robert Surtees
- Associate producer
- Harold Schneider
- Editing
- Don Cambern
- Art director
- Walter Scott Herndon
