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Austin TX 78701 paramounttheatre http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/128937/1_poster.png http://www.austintheatrealliance.org 64634 <p>It has been called &quot;the most impressive work by an American director since Citizen Kane&quot;. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards (winning two), was ranked as one of the 100 greatest American films of all time by AFI, and was deemed &quot;culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant&quot; by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. But how did this low budget art film about a small town in Texas take America by storm, let alone get made?<br /><br />Join producer, production designer and screenwriter Polly Platt for the next segment of the Austin Film Festival&#39;s &quot;Conversations in Film&quot; series where she&#39;ll talk about making the film &quot;THE LAST PICTURE SHOW&quot;, along with celebrated film historian Tom Schatz who will place the film in historical context. We&#39;ll hear about the film&#39;s beginnings (Sal Mineo passed on Larry McMurty&#39;s dime store novel to Polly) all the way to it&#39;s place as a seminal work of the new maverick cinema of the 1970s. </p><p>**This intimate event will include a ticket to the screening of the film at the historic Paramount Theatre following the talk at 6PM.</p><p>AFF&#39;s &quot;Conversations in Film&quot; series is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<br /><br />There will be a short break for dinner on your own before the film.</p><p>Questions? Call 512-478-4795 </p> http://do512.com/event/2008/07/13/the-last-picture-show-w-polly-platt-tom-schatz http://do512.com/event/2008/07/13/the-last-picture-show-w-polly-platt-tom-schatz.xml Sunday 07/13/08 20080713T200000Z/20080713T050000Z false 0 1.0 03:00 PM Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:00:00 -0500 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:00:00 -0500 1 SUN http://austinfilmfestival.myshopify.com/products/conversations-in-film-july-13th http://s3.amazonaws.com/do512/photos/47641/lps_large_sq_90.jpg The Driskill Hotel 3822 http://do512.com/venue/the-driskill-hotel http://do512.com/venue/the-driskill-hotel.xml

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