The wind whips across a deserted street in a deserted town in a cold and bare Texas. A rusting pickup truck drives by, the sound of a lonesome country song playing. It’s 1951 and America has passed this slice of humanity by. ‘The Last Picture Show‘ (1971) is an extraordinary, […]
Cybil Shepherd
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FILM REVIEW When we first see Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) he walks into a taxi cab stand as a ghostly cloud of steam evaporates around him. It’s an entrance of some kind of angel from hell. Travis suffers from insomnia, so he rides around on buses and subways at night. […]