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Directed by PETER BOGDANOVICH...
This adaptation of one of Henry James' shortest and most popular works contains, in cameo, a theme that winds through more elaborate novels like The Ambassadors: the ineluctable tension between European and American cultures that leads to corruption. What Peter Bogdanovich's movie is mostly about, however, is flirting...
...Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, Friday and Saturday...
...have a hunch that this thing is going to look like fifties slop when I go back to it. It certainly was fine when it came out, but a lot of frightening stuff has gone down since then as regards that decade, and unless a second viewing proves that Bogdanovich examines the fifties without being into-it, the reject light is going...
...movies became more and more important in Cambridge, and became important in different ways. The Brattle and the Welles brought us old movies and, even more importantly, they helped make it seem natural to see old movies. Nostalgic movies like those Peter Bogdanovich makes can be cute and sentimental, but with black and white plastered-on period clothes and period expressions in the color era his movies don't give a true sense of anything but nostalgia...