The Amateur Film Critic

A blog about films.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Last Picture Show


What to say? The film starts out slowly and is a bit stitlted, such as the pool party scene and first few confrontations between Cloris Leachman and Tim Bottoms but the characters do develop nicely. The Ellen Burstyn as Lois Farrow in particular was stand out. I have to admit I did want to smack Jeff Bridges across the face a few times, but the role did call for that sort of cockiness and Cybill Shepard is a stunner, and a bit of a bitch. The film was good, but I don't know if I could watch it again.