THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is Back.   THE LAST PICTURE SHOW was cancelled three times last week because as everybody knows there were two big snowstorms here in Baltimore. Fortunately, we could keep the nice-looking print and will show the movie three times this week. Showtimes: Saturday, February 20 - Noon ($6); Monday, February 22 - 7PM ($8); Thursday, February 25 - 9PM ($8). 1971 Peter Bogdanovich. Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn. 126m Director's Cut. bw. Written by Larry McMurtry. "Jeff Bridges' Early Greatness at Charles: This week, the Charles gives audiences the chance to sample Jeff Bridges' current best - his Oscar-nominated lead performance in 'Crazy Heart' - as well as his early peak: his embodiment of confused, youthful machismo in 'The Last Picture Show' (1971), the current entry in the Charles' revival series, Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about coming of age (or not) in a small Texas town. As Duane, the football player whose love for the shallow beauty Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) wreaks havoc on his best-friendship with Timothy Bottoms' good-hearted Sonny (who also loves Jacy), Bridges is in turn infectiously affable, alarmingly crude, abashed and swaggering. His easy excellence in the role earned him his first Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor." (Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun) See Trailer "'The Last Picture Show' has been described as an evocation of the classic Hollywood narrative film. It is more than that; it is a belated entry in that age -- the best film of 1951, you might say. Using period songs and decor to create nostalgia is familiar enough, but to tunnel down to the visual level and get that right, too, and in a way that will affect audiences even if they aren't aware how, is one hell of a directing accomplishment. Movies create our dreams as well as reflect them, and when we lose the movies we lose the dreams. I wonder if Bogdanovich's film doesn't at last explain what it was that Pauline Kael, and a lot of the rest of us, lost at the movies." (Roger Ebert) Next Week: John Cassavetes' HUSBANDS CHARLES THEATRE 1711 N. CHARLES STREET BALTIMORE, MD 21201 (410) 727-FILM