The Last Picture Show

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Amy & Paul travel deep into the heart of 1971's Texan coming-of-age story The Last Picture Show! They ask who the film's true protagonist is, marvel at the murderer's row of incredible actors, and wonder if this was the key inspiration for the boom of sex comedies to follow. Plus: writer/director Peter Bogdanovich himself joins Amy to discuss The Last Picture Show, and what separates modern films from the classics. For Sunset Boulevard week, give us your best "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr/Ms. ___." Just call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Unspilled is brought to you by a new podcast by Focus Features,
0:03.8	the awesome, awesome film studio called Focus On. And what Focus On is, is it's a podcast that
0:10.0	dives deep into the stories behind their films, not the making of, but the history of.
0:15.0	If you want to know more about the history of the child of Mary Queen of Scots or the trajectory
0:18.8	of the Equal Rights Amendment, they've got that for you in focus on telling the history you
0:23.2	want to know to the films that you are loving right now in theaters. So check out Focus On,
0:26.9	you can listen right now at Apple Podcasts and Enjoy. The year is 1971. Let's go deep into the heart
0:33.2	and loins of Texas, the movie The Last Picture Show.
0:43.7	Hey everybody and welcome to Unspilled. I'm your host Amy Nicholson and Paul Shere will be in here
1:00.0	in two seconds. He's in the right of his room all week. Up so I just wanted to say hello everybody
1:04.8	very fast and welcome you to our episode and talk for a little bit about Last Week's episode which
1:10.0	was unforgiven. We are slowly transitioning out of Texas, out of the westerns, sort of,
1:16.1	this we're going to update it just a little bit with a film called The Last Picture Show, set in Texas.
1:22.0	But Unspoken, lots of people really, really love this movie, loved it slightly more than I did.
1:28.7	Some people liked it less than I did. So Herman, Carlo Vitch, Herman writes, I'm with Amy on
1:33.6	this one. Thank you Herman. Here are some questions that Herman has, which are actually good questions.
1:37.5	One, why doesn't it Clint note that Delilah has her eyes and boobs because he is told that she
1:41.7	doesn't. I really am curious about that. Two, why is Freeman nabbed and killed off camera so casually?
1:47.0	It's not too dramatic. Three says Herman, what is up with the weather? He's like it's summer,
1:52.0	it's rain, it's snowing, then the snow was gone and then it's raining again.
1:55.9	Lastly, Herman says, unforgiven is decent, but it's not great. Herman does this
2:00.2	agree with me on one point. He says that Clint's bad acting still to stony, inexpressive is pretty
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