Peter Bogdanovich's follow up to Targets. This film is about the lives of the people in a small town, Anartene Texas. Filmed in black and white by old Hollywood veteran Robert Surtees, the film really captures the depressing feeling of watching a small town in the middle of nowhere slowly dying. The story follows mainly three characters, Sonny Crawford, Duane Jackson and the town beauty Jacy Farrow.
Whoever cast this film certainly made some excellent choices, Timothy Bottoms played Sonny Crawford a senior graduating from high school with absolutely no direction. Jeff Bridges is his friend Duane Jackson a hot head. Cybill Shepherd is Jacy Farrow the town beauty queen just about as lost as everyone else in the town. In a supporting role is Ben Johnson as "Sam the Lion." Ellen Burnstyn plays Farrow's mother a fading beauty queen herself, frankly the film could have explored more of her story.
Bogdanovich an admirer of the old Hollywood system and the filmmakers who worked in it has absorbed their lessons and gets good performances and stages the scenes very well.
The film was almost immediately recognized as a classic and it set an impossibly high bar for Bogdanovich to follow and probably sent him down the road of remaking old Hollywood movies.
The film was written by Bogdanovich and the author of the novel which it was based on Larry McMurty it runs 118 minutes.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment