Tuesday, March 28, 2006
TIME FORGOT
Today we watched the Best Film
In the 80's John and I rode around the hill country of Texas. We were told we should see some towns that 'time forgot'; get off the highway and drive through.
This film could be one of those towns. It is in a different place in Texas but it is the same thing.
I more or less grew up in a town that time had not yet forgotten but it was working on it.
This movie is about that time. That place. That feeling of loss; of the end of time.
Now, we know that it was the beginning of the end of the age of innocence.
And so on.
It is very bleak.
This is a Larry McMurtry story and it is surely about him and it was shot in his actual home town of Archer, Texas.
We have had bounteous gifts from McMurtry and this is one of the first ones.
This is also Peter Bogdanovitch at his best. And it was his second film.
And we have the great Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman and Ellyn Burstyn and Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottom and Cybil Shepard patenting her uber-bitch personna. Randy Quaid and Clu Gulager too; bit favorites.
It is surely one of the classics.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
