The Last Picture Show
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, VancouverTeenagers Duane and Sonny (Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms) are best friends in a small Texas town at the dawn of the 1950s, but the soul of the film is Ben Johnson’s Sam the Lion, proprietor of the local movie house, and a father figure in the boy’s lives. Robert Surtees’ dusty monochrome cinematography evokes a great yearning for a lost golden age.