The Last Picture Show (Blu-ray)

One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds.

Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich.

• 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
• Three documentaries about the making of the film
• Screen tests and location footage
• Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller