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Twelve BIG Texas Films

By Chris Dodge, Utne Reader

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Big Acclaim The Last Picture Show(1971). Two Oscars (and eight nominations) went to this black-and-white Peter Bogdanovich film from Larry McMurtry’s novel about small-town Texas in the 1950s.Big StartSugarland Express(1974). Steven Spielberg’s first theatrical release features a jailbreak, a hijacking, Texas state troopers, and a couple whose desperate maneuver to retrieve their child stirs public sympathy.Big Chicano SoulChulas Fronteras(1976). Inspirational Les Blank documentary about Tejano culture, focusing on the hair-raisingly wonderful music of Flaco Jimenez, Lydia Mendoza, and other conjunto greats.

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Big FunBlood Simple(1984). Black humor meets noir in the Coen brothers’ entertaining and diabolical first feature about a contract killing gone awry; Roger Ebert called it a film that will make the squeamish squeam.Big Shaggy Dog StorySlacker(1991). The camera follows Austin eccentrics through bars, crash pads, and down the street as they theorize about conspiracies, deconstruct Scooby-Doo, advocate a weapons giveaway program, and fondly remember presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz.Big InjusticeThin Blue Line

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