come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? did you say? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp, the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil.
price of prescription drugs in order to negotiate, which would actually help a lot of people who need drugs. also raise taxes on corporations as well as rich high-earning individuals who the administration and manchin agree can. kate bedingfield making time at a very busy moment. thanks for being here. of course. thanks for having me. absolutely. our setup was quicker than usual, because we d be quoting the white house, but we have the white house, so bottom line, one, what does this all do? and two, the big question, how does this president get the senator, manchin, back on board? well, what is this all do? does an enormous amount for families all across the country. it tackles the climate crisis in a meaningful and urgent and frankly historic way. it s going to lower the cost of prescription drugs, the cost of health-care, and it s going to rewrite the tax code so corporations have to pay their fair share, and people making under $400,000 a year are not going to see a
come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without is till monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil. he said, you
wrong goes wrong. right now i can see you. who is it? cops. dog day afternoon. i had never seen anything like it. oh, wow. wait a minute, wait a minute. i ll have to go to the toilet. the kindness and the humanity of the bank robbers was new and entertaining. who has to go to the bathroom? i do. oh, see, now they all want to go. it was the upending of allof the precepts of the bank robbery film. forget the idea of crill nam as celebrity. see, no, i just show myself. what, why am i doing it? yes. doing what? robbing a bank. oh. it is one of those movies where you are literally rooting for the bad guys because the bad guys aren t that bad. he doesn t look very tough to me. does he look tough to you? no. sweet, sweet bad ass song is a hugely important film.
you can just sit down for the rest of your life and watch movies from the 70s. and they re amazing. the shakeup of what we were going through in the 70s and the expectations and the stereotypes that we had had about our own nation and the myths that we had swallowed. there was no way that american cinema could not reflect that. don t you sell america to me! all the movies that came out, they were very inventive and really rich and smart. people were trying for something different. it was an extraordinary time. we were all playing off each other, and there was no doubt we were changing things. we had all these enormously talented, creative, ambitious filmmakers being given money to go out and make the picture that they wanted to make.