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Small Town Film Series at the Clark! – Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show – 6pm tonight

Thu, April 17th, 2025
6:00 pm

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The series concludes with The Last Picture Show (1971), set in 1951 in the fictional Anarene, Texas—a town dusty and silent if not for the wind. With a great ensemble cast, The Last Picture Show considers lives cobbled together in the absence of hope. Teenagers Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) navigate friendship and fate, their trajectories intersected by the viper-like Jacy (Cybil Shephard). Open secrets govern the place, and not even the movies stand a chance. Perfect in the small details, and resonant with the big questions, The Last Picture Show is Peter Bogdanovich’s magnum opus. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Larry McCurty. (Run time: 1 hour, 58 minutes)

The series is co-curated by current MA students Julia Molin, ’25 and Nora Høegh, ’25

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