The director hauled a film crew to Larry McMurtry's home town of Archer City, Texas. Grover Lewis tagged along and wrote one of the best stories about moviemaking ever written. When Francis Ford Coppola first saw a screening of Peter Bogdanovich’s second movie, The Last Picture Show, he couldn’t believe the reception. The movie ended, credits rolled, and the audience stood and applauded. That kind of appreciation is the stuff of any filmmaker’s dreams. It doesn’t happen often, but it was merited and The Last Picture Show was dubbed—by peers, critics, and audiences—an instant classic. Based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, it is as beautiful and lonesome today as it was when it was released in...
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