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.
there s been ensemble move ezand there s been ensemble movies, and then there s nashville, which sits firmly at the top. i was talking about the kristy minstrels just this morning. it deals with a political campaign and the sense in which this country is both divided and deluded. y all take it easy now. listen, it s nashville. he was taking boundaries of film making at that point and just pushing, pushing good, you know. i loved the work. he was a real iconoclast, crazy, stoned all the time, but a brilliant film maker. please! i knew that hal ashby would understand the weird oddities that were present. ruth gordon played an
nashville and mccabe and mrs. miller. in every movie he wants to the capture a sense of spontaneity and simultaneous at that why i the sense of really being there. when you first see mccabe and mrs. miller, you can smell that film. just the steam and the piss and the cooking and all of the different things that were going on in this town. it s such a beautiful film. the absolute heart break in all of it. well, i guess if a man s fool enough to get with a woman, she ain t going to think much of him. i think people underestimate the amount of empathy he had as a filmmaker. he loved people. if they were flawed, if they were terrible, if they were wonderful. he celebrated real humanity. killing anybody this week. he s overlapping voices, he s letting the camera drift around. he may not be on the person even talking. aren t there any rock and roll stations in nashville? these were unprecedented things. elliott, it s gold. there s been ensemble movies and then there s
of the cast went to see it. or did you see that story of the woman in italy who left her cat $13 million? i think the cat blew it all. we don t have much time. joe, you said you cried during the movie. only when it was over. i needed month of that good stuff. not since the cannonball run films have i seen a cluster of marginally talented folks. did you see the movie yet? what movie? okay, good answer. actually it is not a movie in your life. it is your life. you have millions of gorgeous friends that populate your lifelike a new year s eve film. oh, there is a new year s eve movie? it is not summer s eve. have i 30 seconds. nick, i think they are called ensemble movies, aren t they the greatest film making? you don t have to see a lot of films to see all of the stars. you can see them in one spot.