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.
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
at the end of the 60s, hollywood was ballooning budgets up to catastrophic size. here, i ll tell you what, i ll even pay for it in cash. fine. so it opens the door for smaller movies. and when the budget s lower, the artistic freedom tends to be higher. play misty for me. misty? all of a sudden, here s this young group of directors that came along and started blowing up the bridges behind them of the way things used to be, now were trying new ways. let s see if it works. french connection was about a couple of new york cops doing a hard hustle and busting a bunch of lowlife scumbag drug dealers. that car s dirty! billy friedkin shot the film like a documentary. he found a way to make it so real. it really influenced me. my favorite gene hackman performance is popeye doyle. gene hackman was so filled with anger.
the last picture show is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it s about everything that holds you back. it s about being young. there s heartbreak. wisdom that comes of age. and young people discovering how fast time goes. in the last picture show, there was a quality of reality. there s no feeling of watching a performance but of experiencing another human being. really, it s a story about america. about the death of a way of life. so, you re closing the show? nobody wants to come to shows no more. baseball in the summer. television all the time. maybe a necessary death of an old hollywood that had to die to make way for a new generation of filmmakers to tell new stories. at the end of the 60s, hollywood was ballooning budgets up to catastrophic size.
the last picture show is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it s about everything that holds you back. it s about being young. there s heartbreak. wisdom that comes of age. and young people discovering how fast time goes. in the last picture show, there was a quality of reality. there s no feeling of watching a performance but of experiencing another human being. really, it s a story about america. about the death of a way of life. so, clour closing the show? nobody wants to come to shows no more. baseball in the summer. television all the time. maybe a necessary death of an old hollywood that had to die to make way for a new generation of filmmakers to tell new stories. at the end of the 60s, hollywood was ballooning budgets up to catastrophic size. i ll tell you what, i ll even