The Last Picture Show eye fell on an interesting title, "The Last Picture Show". The back of the book said it was about "kids growing up in Texas" and Bogdanovich decided that it did not interest him and put it back. A few weeks later, actor Sal Mineo handed Bogdanovich a copy of the book. "I always wanted to be in this," he said, "but I'm a little too old now" and recommended that Bogdanovich make it into a film. At the time, Bogdanovich was married to Polly Platt and he asked her to read it. Her response was, "I don't know how you
The Decameron (1971 film) believed. The final episode returns to the pupil of the painter Giotto, who has completed his fresco, on which the episodes of the film alternate harmoniously. The Decameron (1971 film) The Decameron () is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel "Il Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's "Trilogy of life", the others being "The Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights". The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor. The film was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury