FREE SCREENING!
Nature of Things presents this double feature of The Last Picture Show & Texasville in conjunction of their exhibit, Minor Regional Novelist, at 3002A Commerce Street, in Deep Ellum (above the bookstore and publisher Deep Vellum) which runs until May 23, 2026.
Peter Bogdanovich, 1971, USA, 118 min
The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny, the wayward jock Duane, and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds.