The Last Picture Show Book Review. Sometime during my college years, i saw the infamous b&w film version, shortly after its release. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism.
Othing much happens in larry mcmurtry's third novel, the last picture show. but then nothing much happens in thalia, the small western town he is writing about. The screenplay was based on the novel of the same name by larry mcmurtry. The film was revelatory when it opened in october 1971, and it has proved the most assured of bogdanovich’s uneven career.
All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished;
Book reviews are commonly assigned students to allow them to show a clear understanding of the novel. Reviewed in the united states on february 1, 2018. As yarbrough concludes, about first reading mcmurtry, “[the last picture show] would convince me that lives like mine, and those of the people i saw around me in a place i hated at least as much. For aspiring writers and filmmakers, the last picture show is one incredible lesson in how to create a world, a.