I can't believe how few threads there are on this board. I haven't seen much, but I am curious how people rate his work.
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a_harmless_loaf_of_bread — 17 years ago(August 27, 2008 02:55 PM)
My top ten Altman:
- Nashville - 10/10
- 3 Women - 9/10
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 9/10
- Images - 8/10
- Short Cuts - 8/10
- The Long Goodbye - 8/10
- Brewster McCloud - 7/10
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians - 7/10
- MASH - 7/10
- Gosford Park - 7/10
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franzkabuki — 17 years ago(September 14, 2008 08:22 PM)
- Short Cuts 10/10
- The Long Goodbye 9,5/10
- The Player 9/10
- 3 Women 9/10
- Vincent & Theo 9/10
- Images 8,5/10
- McCabe & Mrs Miller 8,5/10
- Thieves Like Us 8/10
- California Split 8/10
- Nashville 7,5/10
- Gosford Park 7,5/10
- Buffalo Bill & The Indians 7,5/10
- Kansas City 7/10
- MASH 7/10
- Cookie's Fortune 7/10
- The Gingerbread Man 7/10
- Brewster McClowd 6,5/10
- A Prairie Home Companion 6,5/10
- Countdown 6,5/10
- Dr T & The Women 6,5/10
- A Wedding 6/10
- Streamers 6/10
- Come Back To The 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 6/10
- Pret-a-Porter 5/10
- That Cold Day In The Park 4/10
- Popeye 4/10
- Secret Honor 4/10
- The Company 4/10
- Quintet 4/10
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pzadvance — 17 years ago(September 15, 2008 11:35 PM)
That Cold Day in the Park (8/10)
MAS*H (6/10)
Brewster McCloud (9/10)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (10/10)
Images (6.5/10)
The Long Goodbye (9/10)
Thieves Like Us (9/10)
California Split (8/10)
Nashville (9/10)
Buffalo Bill & the Indians (8/10)
3 Women (10/10)
A Wedding (7/10)
Quintet (5/10)
A Perfect Couple (8/10)
Popeye (5/10)
HEALTH (8/10)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (7/10)
Streamers (7/10)
Secret Honor (6/10)
O.C. & Stiggs (5/10)
Fool For Love (6.5/10)
Beyond Therapy (3/10)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (8/10)
Tanner '88 (9/10)
Vincent & Theo (5/10)
The Player (9/10)
Short Cuts (10/10)
Pret-a-Porter (7/10)
Kansas City (7.5/10)
The Gingerbread Man (7/10)
Cookie's Fortune (8.5/10)
Dr. T & the Women (5/10)
Gosford Park (8.5/10)
A Prairie Home Companion (8/10)
And can't wait to see the rest, easily one of the greatest American directors of all time, and probably the most overlooked. -
Movie-Jay — 17 years ago(February 12, 2009 03:40 AM)
I'm happy to join this thread, Altman is probably my fave director of all time. My entry point was "Short Cuts", and I was hooked after that.
Here are all of my ratings of his movies on IMDB. I'm a more liberal user of the 10 because I prefer to see things in terms of goodness rather than perfection, which is kind of a pretense, since it's art.
For me, 10 is great or a masterpiece.
9 can be called one of the best films of the year.
8 is very good. 7 is good.
5/6 are competent but lackluster.
3/4 are bad.
1/2 are bad but inda0 an ugly and reprehensible kind of way.
10's
1970-MASH
1971-McCabe & Mrs.Miller
1974-California Split (probably his most underrated, with top notch perfs by Elliot Gould and George Segal)
1975-Nashville (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a terrific movie, but Altman should've won the Oscar for direction, hands down)
1977-3 Women (it's like watching it for the first time every time; overlooked masterpiece, there's nothing like it except maybe for "Persona" which came before)
1992-the Player
1993-Short Cuts
2001-Gosford Park
2003-the Company (it just gets everything right when it comes to performing arts academies)
9's
1973-the Long Goodbye (Elliot Gould is on fire in this one too)
1974-Thieves Like Us
1978-A Wedding
1984-Secret Honor (highly overlooked, wonderful Criterion release, one-man show with Philip Baker Hall as Nixon)
1988-Tanner '88
1990-Vincent & Theo (another overlooked gem, this one with Tim Roth)
1999-Cookie's Fortune
2006-A Prairie Home Companion
8's
1970-Brewster McCloud
1972-Images
1976-Buffalo Bill and the Indians
1980-Popeye (guilty pleasure maybe, but I think it holds up; terrific songs and a great sense of screwball timing)
1982-Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean!
1983-Streamers
7's
1957-the James Dean Story
1968-Countdown
1979-A Perfect Couple
1985-Fool For Love (the 4th stage adaptation in a row he made in the 80's)
1987-Aria (segment within a larger film with other directors)
1996-Kansas
1996-Jazz '34
1998-Gingerbread Man
2000-Dr.T & the Women
6's
1969-That Cold Day in the Park (meh, competent but meh)
1988-the Caine Mutiny Court Martial (okay tv movie)
1994-Ready to Wear (too bad, could've been awesome)
5's
1979-Quintet (second go-round with Paul Newman is lackluster)
1980-HealtH
1986-O.C. & Stiggs
3's
1987-Beyond Therapy (his worst film, huge MEH!) -
Movie-Jay — 17 years ago(February 14, 2009 02:53 PM)
I was in NY City a couple years ago on vacation in December, and they played 14 of his movies at the Film Forum in a r2000etrospective. He showed up for the one screening of Images at the beginning of the festival.
That's where I saw "HealtH" and "Quintet" for the first time, and the first time I saw "Buffalo Bill", "A Perfect Couple", "California Split" and "A Wedding" on the big screen.
Now that he's passed on, the big cities will no doubt show retrospectives of his work, so keep up to date on what's playing near you. I'm lucky, I'm from Toronto, which is a movielover's town, and there's always a few chances every year to see stuff like "Nashville" and "MASH" and "McCabe & Mrs.Miller" at the old second-run theatres that also play older movies. -
PickUrFeetInPoughkeepsie — 16 years ago(September 18, 2009 12:29 PM)
I see you rank Fool For Love decently. I just watched that for the first time and it's also the first time I've seen an Altman film all the way through and I thought it was damn good, not amazing but the setting was beautifully shot and the performances were wonderful, I don't see why the film has such a bad reputation. If that is considered "bad" Altman, I can't wait to see outstanding Altman.
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mohammedali234 — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 05:10 AM)
1-Nashville 10/10
2-The Player 9/10
3-Buffalo Bill and the Indians 8/10 (Need to watch it again)
4-Praire Home Companion 7/10
5-Gosford Park 6/10 (Need to watch it again)
Nashville is one the best films I've seen. -
freudified_n_funkified — 16 years ago(May 21, 2009 06:51 PM)
I'll rattle a Top 10 just off the top of my head:
- The Long Goodbye
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Nashville
- MASH
- 3 Women
- The Player
- Brewster McCloud
- Thieves Like Us
- Images
- Short Cuts, California Split, or maybe Popeye
Oh, and those are all 10s in my book.
A truly spectacular body of work, but definitely not for all tastes. And there used to be many more topics on the board, a lot have been deleted.
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freudified_n_funkified — 16 years ago(May 21, 2009 11:44 PM)
Nothing controversial, probably just conservation of space. I notice that with a lot of directors or films that aren't as, say, popular - they've gone from having 4-5 pages of topics to 1 or 2. After a certain time period inactive threads are probably deleted. I don't know, I'm too lazy to see if there are actual imdb regs about that. But indeed, Altman is one of the most divisive filmmakers I've come across. Love, hate and everything in between - even among fans.
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doughazelrigg — 16 years ago(September 18, 2009 07:11 PM)
I have seen most of Altman's work from the 60's onward, and I'd put McCabe & Mrs Miller firm;y at the top, with MASH, Long Goodbye, and Nashville following. In that 3-4 year period he was masterful
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lccmj — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 08:12 AM)
- 3 Women (1977)
10/10 - Images (1972)
10/10 - Short Cuts (1993)
10/10 - Nashville (1975)
10/10 - MAS*H
10/10 - McCabe and Mrs Miller
10/10 - California Split (1974)
9/10 - The Long Goodbye (1973)
9/10 - The Player (1992)
8/10
"My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa." David Lynch
- 3 Women (1977)
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flaiky — 15 years ago(November 26, 2010 10:46 AM)
You haven't had a reply to this in a while! Here are my rates so far..
- Nashville - 10
- Short Cuts - 9
- The Long Goodbye - 9
- The Player - 9
- Thieves Like Us - 9
- McCabe and Mrs Miller - 7.5
- MASH - 7
- Gosford Park - 7 (needs rewatch though)
- Cookie's Fortune - 6 (also needs rewatch)
Don't threaten me with a dead fish!