Last Picture Show on TCM

[Texzilla58 4732]

I'm a sucker for any movie involving Robert Duvall.  Tender Mercies and The Apostle were both Texas-involved movies.

I forgot these two and both are fantastic Texas movies as is anything with Duvall.

[dcbc 14465]

Not to detract from the OP's LPS topic, but Terms of Endearment is another good "Texas" movie.

[South Austin 52454]

20 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Not to detract from the OP's LPS topic, but Terms of Endearment is another good "Texas" movie.

Ain’t gonna lie. I’m a sucker for that one.

[Nolacycling 893]

Everytime I drive past a Dairy Queen, I think of Duane and Shorty. Texasville.

[Texzilla58 4732]

Not to detract from the OP's LPS topic, but Terms of Endearment is another good "Texas" movie.

Jesus what a tearjerker. We’ve never rewatched it.

[South Austin 52454]

4 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

Jesus what a tearjerker. We’ve never rewatched it.

I saw it with my girlfriend a few weeks ago after having not seen it in a couple decades.  It's definitely dated in a few ways, but still holds up overall.  She was bawling when Emma died, because she lost both parents to cancer within six months of each other. 

[Carl Spackler 3479]

I'll watch LPS if for no other reason than to see Ben Johnson's scenes.  And the pool party.

No Country and Hell or High Water are the recent films that best conjure up Texas for me.

 

[dcbc 14465]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I saw it with my girlfriend a few weeks ago after having not seen it in a couple decades.  It's definitely dated in a few ways, but still holds up overall.  She was bawling when Emma died, because she lost both parents to cancer within six months of each other. 

"I'm an astronaut and a swimmer."

[77horn 216]

20 hours ago, pch said:

Inquiring minds want to know, Old High or Rider?

WFHS Coyotes

[pyrohornIII 4814]

On 4/24/2022 at 4:54 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

My votes:

Best movie for reminding you of the Texas you may have experienced when you were tiny and everything seemed kind of mythological and scary. (Mine was Bracketville circa 60s)  - Last Picture Show

Best movie for reminding you of your big Texas suburban public school - Dazed and Confused

Best movie for capturing how time flies in Texas where you go to school and then need to get a job and get married and raise children who go off to school. - Boyhood

Best all around Texas movie  - Lone Star

 

The Three Burials of Milquiades Estrada promotes the vastness and power of west Texas, particularly Big Bend and friendships so strong that boundaries mean nothing.

Places in the Heart was our To Kill a Mockingbird about racism.    

Alamo Bay was a sleeper about about the clash between cultures when the Vietnamese refugees were assimilated into the shrimping ports of Texas.  That hit pretty close to home for me in South Texas as I was in high school about that time and our town "adopted" a refugee family.  

Raggedy Man with Sissy Spacek was another set in South Texas, WWII era.  

 

It's pretty interesting that two of our more powerful and enduring movies were set in the rather desolate West Texas in LPS and Giant.  But two different outlooks.    The documentary on the making of Giant was well done.  

And though it's not a movie, every few years I like to post this link, the culmination of one musician and one photographer and their admiration and love of West Texas. RIP Doug Smith.

 

[ztejas 43411]

On 4/24/2022 at 6:06 PM, futureman said:

have you seen Lone Star?

I have not - I'll check it out. And not claiming No Country is the best example of that ever - it just is of movies that I've seen. 

[futureman 22444]

6 hours ago, ztejas said:

I have not - I'll check it out. And not claiming No Country is the best example of that ever - it just is of movies that I've seen. 

I don’t think it’s better than NCFOM. it’s very different. it’s great, though, and so texas. you gotta give it a day in court. 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2822]

7 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

Raggedy Man with Sissy Spacek was another set in South Texas, WWII era.  

Underappreciated movie.  Early Eric Roberts -- great to contrast his great and subdued performance in this with his over the top stuff in in Pope of Greenwich Village (or Star80).

Texans - Always the same.

 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2822]

1 hour ago, futureman said:

I don’t think it’s better than NCFOM. it’s very different. it’s great, though, and so texas. you gotta give it a day in court. 

Lone Star is a must see just for Kristofferson. A few really great (and true) stereotypes - especially the attitude of Mexican Americans to illegal immigrants which is always fucking topical in Texas.  The restaurant owner reminds me of my mom and her attitude.

John Sayles nailed it on this and Matewan. (West Virginia coal country)

Edited April 26, 2022 by The Original Greaser Bob

[GreenspointTexas 9598]

You idiots. Half the movies yall suggested dont even mention “Texas” in the movie. They are just movies SET in Texas but could be anywhere. Ie Rushmore

 

Best Texas movies, in no order:

 

Lone Star

Friday Night Lights

Lonesome Dove (not really a movie)

No Country for Old Men

Hell or High Water

Apollo 10 and a half

Fandango

Last Picture Show

Giant

 

 

honerable mention: The Alamo (either one)

Edited April 26, 2022 by GreenspointTexas