tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post2960247641606729700..comments2024-03-22T08:29:01.459-07:00Comments on Are the hills going to march off?: The Last Picture Show (1971) A Film by Peter BogdanovichCarson Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post-71024606274622050102011-09-15T09:30:45.778-07:002011-09-15T09:30:45.778-07:00I think that Bogdanovich went for black and white ...I think that Bogdanovich went for black and white to emulate the classical Hollywood Era Westerns (Hawks, Ford, etc.) he so clearly admires. It's as much an aesthetic decision to evoke tradition and nostalgia as it is a thematic one, since the film gradually becomes about the degradation of an old way of filmgoing. I don't find the film slow really; it's certainly very deliberate in its visual flow, but its narrative is only "slow" by today's frenetic Hollywood standards. <br /><br />Unfortunately, I haven't seen <i>Paper Moon</i>. I missed it last year when it came to the Harvard Film Archive.Carson Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294916540840535575.post-26382302563836010572011-09-15T07:01:48.120-07:002011-09-15T07:01:48.120-07:00Do you know why Bogdanovich went with black and wh...Do you know why Bogdanovich went with black and white here, was it just to portray the past? Overall I found The Last Picture Show slow, though it had a certain atmosphere, maybe the slow pace was an intentional decision to mirror real life slowness in a small town. <br /><br />Have you seen Paper Moon (1973) ? I kind of regard it as a sister film to The Last Picture Show, both films using b/w as an artistic choice, and also directed by Peter BogdanovichChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395044055566348346noreply@blogger.com