Texasville

So this is the sequel to The Last Picture show, and I’m watching the extended black and white version (from Criterion).

Eh… this looks like a colour movie that somebody has removed the colour from. Which I guess it is.

Uhm… I think I’m gonna watch the colour version instead, because this just looks odd.

Yeah, this looks like it was intended to be shot in colour.

Hey, isn’t that… Eileen Brennan?

So, this film was done 20 years after The Last Picture Show, but is set 33 years later. That’s pretty unique?

So the actors were playing characters younger than themselves in the first movie, and now they’re playing characters older themselves…

Well, the cinematographer on the first movie was better.

Those are very actory toes.

Those are very fertile tomato plants. I can totally see why she’s digging a hole right next to one of them. It’s because of… er… because… I DON”T OWE YOU AN ANSWER11!

Advanced cinematography.

OK, you may infer from these things I’m typing that I’m not totally riveted by this movie.

The problem with this movie is that it assumes that we were so totally into the first movie that any information we’re getting about these characters 33 years later is supposed to be fascinating.

But I don’t really care, so it’s like eh? Eh?

Cybill Shepherd apparently only had three days to spare to film this, so her scenes are kinda brief.

Speaking of, she has had a strange career. She was hot shit in the 70s in a bunch of big movies (Taxi Driver, etc), and then was a phenomenon with the Die Hard guy in the 80s with Moonlighting, and then… sorta… faded? The final bigger thing I can remember seeing her in was in the Cybill sitcom, which was an American version of Absolutely Fabulous (only very very mild). And I like her a lot, but it does seem like the world didn’t. (I mean, she’s continued to work (and a lot) but nothing that’s making an impression, I think?)

I just couldn’t get into this movie. I was sitting here watching it, but nothing seemed to be of interest. But I guess it’s not awful or anything?

Texasville. Peter Bogdanovich. 1990. ⚂

I bought a Texasville bluray, but I already had two versions of the movie — included as extras on the Criterion Last Picture Show release, but I didn’t know that. I ended up watching the version from the latter release…