Small Town Film Series: The Last Picture Show
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The Clark Art Institute (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267, Williamstown MA)
The Clark presents a series of films highlighting the charm of small towns.
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)
Free. Details: clarkart.edu/events
Image: The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971