No pressure at all for this one! We start Bogdanovich’s 1970s with one of the most important films in New Hollywood (and cinema at large): The Last Picture Show! Not only a seminal film for its frank sexuality, black and white cinematography, and breakout performances, but also its incredibly messy behind-the-scenes affairs. Talk about 4DX cinema… Plus, we’re joined by friend and film aficionado Brooke Forrest!
In this episode we discuss the novelization of Ang Lee’s Hulk, Orson Welles’ love of French champagne and what that might sound like, our disbelief in Cybill Shepherd’s “immediate” attraction to Bogdanovich, Oscar nomination fraud, and Jeff Bridges throwing diabolical fits.
Next Episode: What’s Up Doc (1972)
Further “Reading”
- By Bogdanovich (2011)
- The Last Picture Show Criterion 4K
- America Lost and Found: The BBS Story Blu-ray boxset
- Columbia Classics 4K Collection Vol. 3
- The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
- Picturing Peter Bogdanovich by Peter Tonguette
- Picture Shows: The Life and Films of Peter Bogdanovich by Andrew Yule
- The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever by Vincent LoBrutto
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
- Cybil Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd with Aimee Lee Ball
- Hulk: The Junior Novel
- 'The Last Picture Show: An Oral History’ by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly (April 17, 2017)
- ‘‘Bogdanovich’s ‘Last Picture Show’ as He Intended It’ by Barbara Saltzman for the Los Angeles Times (August 12,1991)
- You Must Remember This - “Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 3 - Last Picture Show Love Triangle”
- You Must Remember This - “Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 4 - Orson Welles, What’s Up Doc, and Paper Moon”
- It Happened in Hollywood - “Peter Bogdanovich: ‘The Last Picture Show’”
- The Last Picture Show 40th Anniversary Panel
- Indie Sex: Teens, IFC documentary about teenage sexuality in film
- Ben Johnson’s Oscar speech
- Cloris Leachman’s Oscar speech
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