Articles tagged "robert altman"

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In a new book dozens of luminaries tell tales of the brilliant, stubborn Robert Altman

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Oct.09] :. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Robert Altman’s films never told us what to think or feel. The Kansas City-born director — of classics like “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,”...

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The American Ruling Class (2005)

by Bill Gibron

[7.Feb.09] :. We are clearly a nation of classes. We hear about it everyday: the haves and the have-nots; upper, middle, lower, impoverished, disenfranchised, and all the pecuniary parameters in between; the name...

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Books Review

101 Forgotten Films by Brian Mills

by Michael Antman

[8.Jan.09] :. Mills is a movie lover who, like a penniless kid with his nose pressed against the windows of a wonderful restaurant, aches for the unobtainable.

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Film DVD Review

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Michael Buening

[16.Oct.06] :. That a down home jamboree could be interesting to heavy-metal loving middle school students speaks to its wide.

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Film Review

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[9.Jun.06] :. A Prairie Home Companion combines typical Altman strategies, like overlapping dialogue and converging multiple storylines, as well as his fanatical appreciation for the process of creating art.

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Film Review

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.06] :. You might call A Prairie Home Companion an unlikely Lindsay Lohan movie. You could also call it the best work she's done, the best work she's likely to do, or the best chance she's had to do good work.

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Robert Altman Collection: Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett - PopMatters

by Matt Mazur

[25.Apr.06] :. This uneven collection is a definite example of the adage 'when he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's very bad'.

 

Short Cuts (1993)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[14.Apr.05] :. Death, or that state 'beyond natural color', is Short Cuts' common denominator.

 

The Company (2003)

by Michael Healey

[22.Jan.04] :. Evocations of life's uncertainty -- an Altman specialty -- simultaneously expose the obstacles the ballet company must overcome in order to mount a production.

 

The Long Goodbye (1973/2002)

by Christopher Sieving

[26.Sep.02] :. Not just empty genre deconstruction, The Long Goodbye dares to ask some very basic questions about the hard-boiled detective hero.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

 

Gosford Park (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It is clear about what it is, a study of affect that is also affected.

 

Dr. T & The Women (2000)

by Mike Ward

We're stuck, 'Dr. T & The Women' seems to say. Men and women: this is simply how we are.