En 1951, un groupe de lycéens grandissent dans une ville isolée et perdue du Texas qui meurt lentement, à la fois culturellement et économiquement.En 1951, un groupe de lycéens grandissent dans une ville isolée et perdue du Texas qui meurt lentement, à la fois culturellement et économiquement.En 1951, un groupe de lycéens grandissent dans une ville isolée et perdue du Texas qui meurt lentement, à la fois culturellement et économiquement.
- A remporté 2 oscars
- 19 victoires et 22 nominations au total
- Charlene Duggs
- (as Sharon Taggart)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAt 9 minutes and 54 seconds, Ben Johnson's performance in this movie is the shortest ever to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- GaffesWhen Lois Farrow makes a telephone call from her home she dials a seven digit number. In 1951 a telephone number would have been at the most five digits in the small town of Anarene, Texas.
- Citations
Sam the Lion: You boys can get on out of here, I don't want to have no more to do with you. Scarin' a poor, unfortunate creature like Billy just so's you could have a few laughs - I've been around that trashy behavior all my life, I'm gettin' tired of puttin' up with it. Now you can stay out of this pool hall, out of my cafe, and my picture show too - I don't want no more of your business.
- Autres versionsSpecial edition includes seven minutes of footage not included in the original release.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Last Picture Show Re-Release Promo (1971)
- Bandes originalesCold, Cold Heart
(uncredited)
Written by Hank Williams (as Hank Williams Sr.)
Performed by Tony Bennett
Bogdanovich's love affair with film is undeniable, though it has, in the past three decades, yielded far more perplexing misfires (The Cat's Meow, At Long Last Love, Nickelodeon) than unqualified successes. That said, The Last Picture Show is an extraordinary accomplishment and worthy of its place in the list of great films of the 1970s.
1971's other important films (Friedkin's The French Connection, Pakula's Klute, Kubrick's Clockwork Orange) are loud, angry, violent and contemporary in-your-face reflections of a society in which rage and nihilism, engendered by Vietnam and the growing discontent over government corruption, is the currency of communication. The uncertainty coursing through the veins of American pop culture also begat in equal, if not equally graphic, measure a palpable sense of sorrow at the destruction of a simpler way of life (no matter how "true" that memory may be).
Like Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof and Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Last Picture Show is a powerful and poignant evocation of the death of a community and a way of life. Thematically rich and imbued with Bogdanovich's remarkable knowledge and passion for film, the movie works on a dazzling number of levels; and Bogdanovich's use of nostalgia and traditional, archetypal genre conventions both enriches the movie and compounds the heartbreaking loss at the heart of the story.
His deft handling of a cast comprised of then (largely) unknowns (Bridges, Bottoms, Shepherd) is first-rate and he draws forth superb, often sublime performances from everyone (in particular, Johnson, Burstyn and Leachman). There isn't a false note or a misstep in the movie and there is a naturalness here that is not easily achieved or earned. The great production design (by Bogdanovich's then wife and partner Polly Platt whose contributions to his work and her subsequent involvement in the best works of James L. Brooks should not go underestimated) and the achingly beautiful cinematography by the late Robert Surtees are vital to the success (emotionally, intellectually, thematically) of the film.
The Last Picture Show is a truly rare work of surprising depth and emotional resonance; and the heartache for a time and place forever gone and the desperate and quiet struggles of its very real, very human denizens is matched only by the sorrow found in contemplation of Bogdanovich's Icarus-like fall from such exalted heights.
- csplus
- 10 janv. 2005
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Zadnja predstava
- Lieux de tournage
- 605 South Ash Street, Archer City, Texas, États-Unis(high school)
- sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 1 300 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 29 133 000 $ US
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 29 146 255 $ US
- Durée1 heure 58 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1