The Last Picture Show

...in mid-December for awards consideration. Bridges is a four-time past nominee (his first nomination was 37 years ago for The Last Picture Show) and seems like the kind of guy who's due for major recognition. And early screenings of...

In this article: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeff Bridges, The Informant, Matt Damon, Hurt Locker, Colin Firth, Clint Eastwood, and Morgan Freeman

...remake of "True Grit." Variety reports that Josh Brolin and Matt Damon are also onboard. For Bridges, whose filmography includes "The Last Picture Show," "Hearts of the West," "Starman," "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "American Heart," an...

In this article: Jeff Bridges, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Coen brothers, The Last American Hero, The Iceman Cometh, Toronto, Lee Marvin, and Robert Ryan

A well-thought-out campaign for Bridges could take him all the way to the Kodak stage on March 7, 38 years after his first nomination for "The Last Picture Show." It may be that his time has come. Later I moderated the Screen Actors...

In this article: Oscar, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Ricky Gervais, Jeff Bridges, Henry Selick, Colin Firth, Lymelife, and Bruce Cohen

...I talk about the children of the world, this is what they're looking at, not Dallas or Houston," he said. "They're looking at 'Giant' and 'The Last Picture Show.' They see rural Texas as what determines Texas, and that's what we've got to...

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...she has rarely considered. Mottern has been quoted as saying that he's been influenced by '70s films like "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Picture Show." Obviously, he has learned from the best and, if "Trucker" is any indication, he...

In this article: Trucker, Michelle Monaghan, Cancer, Jimmy Bennett, Gone Baby Gone, and Five Easy Pieces

...in Star Trek. Mottern has been quoted as saying that he was very much influenced by such '70s filmic character studies as Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show and The Last Detail. Obviously he has learned from the best, and, if Trucker...

In this article: Trucker, Michelle Monaghan, Star Trek, Jimmy Bennett, James Kirk, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, and Gone Baby Gone

...a chance. And the kids - Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, Bogdanovich, Scorsese - did great things like The Godfather, Star Wars, Jaws, The Last Picture Show and Taxi Driver. That generation shares Coppola's dismay in Beirut. They know the...

In this article: Francis Ford Coppola, Gone with the Wind, George Lucas, The Godfather, Inglourious Basterds, Oscars, JavaScript, Anxiety, and The Star Wars

...actress was interviewed by Osborne on stage Saturday night after a screening of Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show," for which she won an Oscar. The performance, delicate and vulnerable, showed another side of the woman who...

In this article: Cloris Leachman, Robert Osborne, Gail Buckley, Lena Horne, Port Townsend Film Festival, Gene Wilder, and Cabin in the Sky

...movie and was among Ford's personal favorites. Extras, extras: Peter Bogdanovich, who directed Johnson to an Oscar for 1971's The Last Picture Show, joins Carey for a beguiling commentary peppered by excerpts from Bogdanovich's...

In this article: John Ford, DVD, Wolverine, Dalton Trumbo, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Paul Newman, Harry Carey Jr., Meerkat, Oscar, and True Life Adventures

...around a watchtower on the preserve, drink whiskey and kill time. One of these is Duane Moore, whom McMurtry's readers first met in "The Last Picture Show" (1966). He soon becomes a good friend of K.K. Slater, the 52-year-old patron of...

In this article: Larry McMurtry, Buffalo Girls, Lonesome Dove, Texas, Malaise, and Texasville