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...LAST PICTURE SHOW. Peter Bogdanovich subtly and precisely evokes the paralysis of the 1950s in the microcosm of a dying Texas town called Anarene...
...confused, although it undoubtedly will be, with Peter Bogdanovich's excellent The Last Picture Show [TIME...
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD In this piece of lightweight scholarship, Director-Critic Peter Bogdanovich reviews the career of John Ford as if he were anatomizing the canon of Yeats. Ford, director of classic Americana from Stagecoach to The Grapes of Wrath to The Last Hurrah, is an artist of enormous sweep. But he has been guilty of certain venial sins, among them boozy sentimentality and the use of overfamiliar stock characters. In Bogdanovich's eyes every blemish is a virtue, and no detail is too trivial to examine. He traces, for example, the history of a gesture first used...
...Virtuoso Shootout. Bogdanovich labored for almost six months on Gorman's gritty motorcycle flick The Wild Angels, rewriting the script, scouting locations, casting ("Peter Fonda was sort of my idea"). Gorman, impressed with both Bogdanovich's energy and his results, agreed to put up the money for his first feature. There were a couple of strings. Bogdanovich had to use Boris Karloff, who owed producer Gorman two days' work on an old contract, and a certain amount of unused footage from an old Gorman opus entitled The Terror. The finished film, Targets, contained a virtuoso Shootout scene...
...Pleased now with the acclaim that is greeting The Last Picture Show, Bogdanovich denies that he was trying to say something about American apathy and brutality. "I don't make movies to say anything," he insists. "I make them because I enjoy making that kind of picture, showing a specific emotion on the screen." Bogdanovich not only enjoys making movies, he virtually lives them. His face has the occupational pallor of long days spent on sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations...