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♪ ♪ come with us. we're heading for the valley. >> going where? did you say? >> mexico. >> all the way down. >> you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? >> reckon the town will get along without us tli monday? >> oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i'd go with you. >> "the last picture show" was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid-'70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. >> do you think "the ...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ come with us. we're heading for the valley. >> going where? >> mexico. >> all the way down. >> you going all the way to mexico tonight in this heap of junk? >> reckon the town will get along without is till monday? >> oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i'd go with you. >> "the last picture show" was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid-'70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. >> do you think "the last pic...

>> at the end of the '60s, hollywood was ballooning budgets up to catastrophic size. >> here, i'll tell you what, i'll even pay for it in cash. >> fine. >> so it opens the door for smaller movies. and when the budget's lower, the artistic freedom tends to be higher. >> play misty for me. >> misty? >> all of a sudden, here's this young group of directors that came along and started blowing up the bridges behind them of the way things used to be, now were trying new ways. let's see if it works. >> "french connection" was about a couple of new york cops doing a hard hustle and busting a bunch of ...

>> "the last picture show" is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it's about everything that holds you back. it's about being young. >> there's heartbreak. wisdom that comes of age. and young people discovering how fast time goes. >> in "the last picture show," there was a quality of reality. there's no feeling of watching a performance but of experiencing another human being. >> really, it's a story about america. about the death of a way of life. >> so, you're closing the show? >> nobody wants to come to shows no more. baseball in the summer. television all...

>> "the last picture show" is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it's about everything that holds you back. it's about being young. >> there's heartbreak. wisdom that comes of age. and young people discovering how fast time goes. >> in "the last picture show," there was a quality of reality. there's no feeling of watching a performance but of experiencing another human being. >> really, it's a story about america. about the death of a way of life. >> so, clour closing the show? >> nobody wants to come to shows no more. baseball in the summer. television all ...