The Last Picture Show: Sweeping

[kadennis66]

Damn good movie and in my personal top 5. Sam the Lion hits home for me as I had someone like him in my life growing up. Wisdom and wit. Living in small town Iowa and watching your home town die sure as hell hits home in this movie also. Ben Johnson was a under used and appreciated actor. This is a movie I recomend to anybody that is a serious movie buff. Hope to read the book someday

[thisisnotzimbabwe]

I was really moved the first time I watched the movie as a teenager, in those years that you don't seem to fit anywhere (the feeling comes back once in a while). In this world in which we seldom speak from our heart, you sometimes get more truth from movies like this one than from real life...

How many times, I would have loved to shout: "He was sweeping, sonofbitches, he was sweeping!So easy and yet so hard to understand for some people...

[sonictrasher]

I remember seeing this film for the first time. This scene really got to me.

[rogerrodd]

Easily inside of my personal top 5 most powerful, haunting, and memorable scenes in the history of film.

[infonomics]

A kind of Sisyphus but with a broom, not a rock.

[vivienmerchant]

This beautiful, elegiac poem of a film, "Paper Moon" and "Targets" are amongst the best works in American film.

[DougPatton1]

" Ya jus can't live in Texas, unless ya gotta lot o soul ", Doug Sahm, At The Crossroads

[DougPatton1]

High Plains/Llanno Estacado lawng tawl teen wez-Texans  Chas Hardin 'Bud' Holley n Jerry Ivan Allison in awe o Big John Wayne, 'The Searchers', State Cinema Lubbock, Tx, May of '56 - " That'll Be The Day ! "

[eecortese]

I've seen all the great ones...the only film that even comes close to "The Last Picture Show" in cinematic style and sensibility is "Hud."

[DougPatton1]

@eecortese " You're damned right ! It ain't hardly surprizin ahm a mean bastard with you as ma ole man !! "  Meanwhile back in lil ole tahn, Tight Twat, Texas.....

[eecortese]

At 0:42, right out of last scene and shot of Jean-Pierre Leaud in Truffaut's "400 Blows." Use of freeze frame close up is nothing less than brilliant. Bogdanovich also briefly uses technique in beginning of film when character Sam the Lion is introduced brushing pool table.

[THX1205]

Excellent Movie only surpassed by The French Connection in 1971 Oscars!

[MrNolanjp]

one of the best movie quotes of all time thank you for posting it

[tallcoolone1]

i dont know that it was underrated..it was well-respected and famous in the early 70s..

[AUS10TEX]

Sam the Lion.

[rogerrodd]

One of the most underrated films ever. Several scenes, performances, and lines from this piece have remained with me to this day-and the last and only time that I saw it was when it was currently running at the movies.

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

When I was young we would listen to old tales and stories, there was no cinema,we could not wait for the story teller to call to one of the houses some stories took a few nights in the telling.Then came the printed page, radio, and cinema,and the stories were lost,to the story teller,the movie makers then told the tales and in the early days they new how to..

[cochranexyz]

I read Texasville, the sequel, but I was greatly disappointed by it. Anyone see that movie? Is it bad?

[AUS10TEX]

@cochranexyz Texasville was BAD , Read " Duane;s depressed.

[AUS10TEX]

@cochranexyz BOOK WAS  TERRIBLE. FILM WORSE. " Duane's Depressed" and "When the Light Goes" are really good reads.

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[thisisnotzimbabwe]

@cochranexyz I watched Texasville and it was frankly a disappointment, I just didn't like the evolution of the characters. If you like Bogdanovich style, I would recommend you "Paper moon".

[johnrunion]

@thisisnotzimbabwe yes, i agree texasville is a big letdown after picture show. the few good things about texasville were actually found in the novel. sonny was the heart and soul of lps. it was a big mistake to completely change the character of duane from lps to what he became in Txville. sure people change in 30 years, but for duane to go for an impulsive character to the voice of reason was just too much. it may as well have been two different people.

[johnrunion]

@thisisnotzimbabwe paper moon is indeed a far superior film to txville.

[pprkut1989]

i just bought this book a few days ago and finished it a.s.a.p.

it was very very touching

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

Can you giveme the title and pulishers name I would like to read thiis book

[shakezula29]

one of the great underappreciated movies of all time in my opinion

[AugieDog6]

this scene is one of the saddest things i've seen in a movie

[JONROSE44]

Timothy Bottoms was awesome in this scene....a real talent.

[frankmilitary]

The scene is all the more powerful since Sam Bottoms just died in real life of a brain tumor. He was 53. This film was his debut and he was a solid character actor for many years.

[hiflyer53qwc]

one of the most haunting scenes in film..for a different look at the talented Timothy Bottoms try to find a clip from ..:Thats my Bush"

[dankohner1]

If I knew how to upload from a DVD I would upload Texasville in 10 minute segments, since I own the DVD.

[jhrunion]

timothy bottoms as sonny crawford in the last picture show is pure genius.

[caradecaballo]

Timothy Buttons..

[dankohner1]

Could someone please upload Texasville? The sequel to The Last Picture show.

[jhrunion]

yes, i agree. i would like to see the texasville trailer at least. all i have been able to find is the trailer for picture this, the documentary about the filming of texasville.

[vondarke]

Exactly.