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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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)
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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!
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silverkid — 15 years ago(January 26, 2011 01:41 PM)
- MASH (1970) / A-
- The Player (1992) / A-
- Short Cuts (1993) / B+
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) / B+
- The Long Goodbye (1973) / B+
- Gosford Park (2001) / B
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006) / B-
- 3 Women (1977) / C+
- Nashville (1975) / C+
http://most-underrated-movies.blogspot.com/
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g_monte — 15 years ago(March 10, 2011 01:41 PM)
3 Women
10
(my #2 film of the 1970s)
Nashville
10
The Player
9.5
Short Cuts
9
Gosford Park
9
MASH
9
A Prairie Home Companion
9
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8.5
The Long Goodbye
8.5
Thieves Like Us
8
Vincent & Theo
8
Secret Honor
8
California Split
8
Cookie's Fortune
7.5
Streamers
7.5
Kansas City
7
Countdown
7
Popeye
7
Images
6.5
A Wedding
6.5
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
6
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
6
The Gingerbread Man
6
Fool for Love
6
Dr T and the Women
6
HealtH
6
A Perfect Couple
5
O.C. and Stiggs
5
The Delinquents
5
Prt--Porter
4.5
Quintet
4.5