The Last Picture Show - Criterion Collection Blu-Ray

The Last Picture Show is one of the most important films of the American cinema renaissance of the 1970s and is set in the early 1950s, in the loneliest Texas town ever to be graced by a movie screen. This poignant portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel, focuses on the daily lives of three teenagers with no future—the cheerful Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the headstrong sports fan Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls they encounter at night, including Cloris Leachman's lonely housewife and Ben Johnson's grizzled movie theater owner. With atmospheric black-and-white images and deeply felt performances, thisportrayal of decaying American values remains the most important work in the career of the invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich. 4K digital restoration of the director's cut, with uncompressed mono audio track Two audio commentaries with Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall Two documentaries about the making of the film Q&A with Bogdanovich from 2009p>

Excerpts from a 1972 TV interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the new Hollywood

Trailers

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller

Cover by F. Ron Miller