The Last Picture Show northern Texas. McMurtry had renamed the town Thalia in his book; Bogdanovich renamed it Anarene for the film, a name chosen to correspond to the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas, in Howard Hawks' "Red River" (1948). "Red River", significantly, is the movie, indeed the last picture show, which Sonny and Duane watch at the end of the film. After shooting the film, Bogdanovich went back to Los Angeles to edit the film on a Moviola. Bogdanovich has said he edited the entire film himself but refused to credit himself as editor, reasoning that director and co-writer was enough. When informed that
The Last Days (2005 film) late. The film began as a five-minute short, but it was eventually expanded to 51 minutes. "The Last Days" played at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival on September 24, 2005. The Last Days (2005 film) The Last Days is a 2005 war film directed by Eric Bryan. It is among the films being shown at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, "Film for the People". The year is 1945 and the Germans have just surrendered. An airborne unit is ordered to a nearby way-station to help process German surrenders. Along the way, they cross paths with a broken Wehrmacht unit that's