Duane wants nothing more than to marry Jacy Sonny wants what Duane has and Jacy wants to get the hell out of Thalia any way she can. This first volume of the trilogy drops the reader into the one-stoplight town of Thalia, Texas, where Duane Moore, his buddy Sonny, and his girlfriend Jacy are all stumbling along the rocky road to adulthood. Bogdanovich has also acted in many films and TV shows (including the landmark series The Sopranos ) and is the author of several important books on film.In The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry introduced characters who would show up again in later novels, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Peter Bogdanovich, whose other films include What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, They All Laughed, Mask, and The Cat’s Meow. The Hank Williams songs on the soundtrack also help to intensify the film’s mournful atmosphere. At a time when color had become the norm in Hollywood, Bogdanovich chose to shoot the film in black-and-white and collaborated with master cinematographer Robert Surtees. ” Four decades later, in 2011, Stephen Holden of The New York Times called The Last Picture Show “an American classic-a perfect film, if you will, whose cosmic sadness makes it feel timeless.” In addition to Johnson and Leachman, the cast includes Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, and Clu Gulager. Newsweek ’s Paul Zimmerman went so far as to call the film “the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane. His second feature catapulted him to the front ranks of American directors of the 1970s. Bogdanovich, a film critic and historian, had directed one earlier movie-a low-budget indie called Targets. This loving and acute portrait of a dying Texas town in the early 1950s is notable for its beautifully rendered atmosphere and for the warmth and compassion of its characterizations. The film earned two Oscars-Best Supporting Actor Ben Johnson and Best Supporting Actress Cloris Leachman. 13 AT 7:30 PM AT THE AHRYA FINE ARTS THEATRE Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s acclaimed novel, The Last Picture Show was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1971, including Best Picture and Best Director Peter Bogdanovich. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) 45TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING Q&A AFTER THE SCREENING WITH DIRECTOR PETER BOGDANOVICH TUESDAY, DEC.

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry