Avis sur le produitTexasville (DVD, 2002)

A reality show on steroids,.30 yrs later,.long awaited sequel,.Texas style.

This is the Sequel to "THE LAST PICTURE SHOW" some 30 years later,.Sonny Crawford and Dwane Jackson have remained close friends and still live in the same Little Texas town,..Dwane now an millionaire oilman is married with four spoiled rich kids that have no limits. The movie takes place during a global oil glut,.falling oil prices and Dwane Jackson trying to unload 12 million in oil rigs. Lester Marlow the town banker played by Randy Quaid on the phone every hour with Dwane pleading for money,.His older son getting two married ladies pregnant,.his teen aged daughter with a baby of her own getting engaged to different man every week. His wife Karla ( Annie Potts ) Nailed her part to a tee of what a rich Texas lady acts like without a formal education,...Spending money faster than Dwane can make it,.and threating Dwane for a divorce on a daily basis,..With all the crap on the plate of Dwane Jackson it's any wonder he didn't end up in a quiet room of the local hospital,..like Lester did. Crap hits the fan when Jacy Farrow comes back to town after the death of her child and the crowd goes wild when Jacy & Dwane the town hero end up on a parade float in the towns centennial parade..Not as good as "THE LAST PICTURE SHOW",..By far,..When you grow up in Texas you know these things,..they got it down tight in spades with the first,..TEXASVILLE is still a very entertaining movie,.but not the Masterpiece the first one was,..If you like reality shows you'll love this one. Three starsLire l'avis complet...

A contemporary film about marriage and relations.

This is the sequal to the movie, The Last Picture Show but it's 30 years later. The kids of 30 years ago have not grown up into adults but into middle-aged adolescents. In a small Texas town everybody knows everyone, and they are all having affairs, that everyone knows about. Sonny and Duane were in love with Jacy, the town beauty, who has just returned from Italy following the death of her son and divorce of her husband. Jacy becomes good friends with Karla, Duane's wife. Meanwhile Duane has his own problems with the women he is having affairs with and his son is following in his foot steps. You begin to wonder if there is more to life than screwing around.

Bogdanovich brings some of the story threads together in a long sequence built around the Anarene centennial celebration, and there is a parade in which Jacy gets to wave from a float decorated with the tactless legend, "Homecoming Queens Through the Ages." There are also some moments of heartfelt emotion, confession, and tragedy, and the oil crisis and other international events occasionally hover on the horizon, but in general the town seems to be as preoccupied as ever with its own personalities and memories, as if it were sitting for its portrait.

"Texasville" shows that time doesn't necessarily change life, it just alters how we view it. "Texasville" is both a funny and a sad look at contemporary small town life during the Reagan years. Duane's extended family has the combined dysfunctionality of the entire town in the first film. His oldest son, Dickey , is a rousing teenage womanizer who has been bedding most of the local women, including some of Duane's girlfriends. His oldest daughter, Nellie has several children of her own from previous marriages, all of whom live with Duane. And don't forget "The Twins," Jack and Julie , Duane's youngest children who get kicked out of a Christian camp after posing nude for Polaroids and throwing bricks into the toilets."

Texasville" an interesting set-piece, because the characters from "The Last Picture Show" were such thoroughly drawn out and memorable people. None of them came across as actors playing parts, but rather as actual townspeople who had lived there all their lives. The same is true in "Texasville" -- it feels as though all of them have been living steadily in Anarene during the twenty years since "The Last Picture Show" was made, instead of going on to successful movie careers.

"Texasville" closes with questions unanswered and problems left unsolved. But isn't that how real life is, especially in Anarene? It would have been a cheat had the film tried to tie up all the loose ends that have been dangling in the wind for the last thirty years. Jacy's return to Anarene may signal something new for the town, but it's still the same old place.Lire l'avis complet...

Fun easy sequal to The Last Picture Show

Love this movie, quirky follow up to The Last Picture Show. Jeff Bridges and Annie Potts are great! Just wish I could have find older titles more affordable.

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Good movie

I like most of Jeff Bridges movies.
I'm especially glad that unlike when I'd watched it on TV twice in recent weeks, the sound is rich & the filming is quality on DVD.
It's a sequel to The Last Picture Show, but I like it better.
This DVD is in pristine condition & I'm glad I've got this movie.Lire l'avis complet...

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Review of Texasville

A classic that will be viewed over and over again.

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Texasville DVD

The Last Picture show- Is the first movie.

TEXASVILLE- is the sequel to the LAST PICTURE SHOW
I bought this movie years ago. I really liked it. I use to have it on VHS until someone lent it out a friend who liked it so much they decided to keep it! So when I found it on ebay and it was on DVD it was one of those I just had to buy it. I think it is not bad a of movie. It is one of those I don't mind watch over and over again.Lire l'avis complet...

Great movie.

This is a sequel to one of my favorite movies of all times -"The last picture show". Many people from the original cast return for this