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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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
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kinnyhova — 14 years ago(November 03, 2011 04:39 PM)
Mar 6 2010 13:50:58
That Cold Day in the Park (ns)
MAS*H (8/10)
Brewster McCloud (ns)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (10/10)
Images (4/10)
The Long Goodbye (9/10)
Thieves Like Us (6/10)
California Split (9/10)
Nashville (8/10)
Buffalo Bill & the Indians (9/10)
3 Women (8/10)
A Wedding (5/10)
Quintet (ns)
A Perfect Couple (6/10)
Popeye (4/10)
HEALTH (ns)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (ns)
Streamers (4/10)
Secret Honor (5/10)
O.C. & Stiggs (5/10)
Fool For Love (ns)
Beyond Therapy (ns)
Vincent & Theo (ns)
The Player (8/10)
Short Cuts (8/10)
Pret-a-Porter (3/10)
Kansas City (6/10)
The Gingerbread Man (ns)
Cookie's Fortune (5/10)
Dr. T & the Women (ns)
Gosford Park (8/10)
A Prairie Home Companion (6/10)
M5b4y favorite director.
McCabe and Long Goodbye are two of my all-timers.
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mulholland_empire — 14 years ago(November 25, 2011 11:26 AM)
out of the films ive seen
images 10/10
3 women 9/10
nashville 10/10
short cuts 10/10
the player 9/10
mccabe and mrs miller 9/10
mash 10/10
secret honor 8/10
gosford park 10/10
the long goodby 9/10
one of the most original directors ever. i really wnt to find some more of his 80s films like fool for love and beyond therapy. i will prob break dwn and order them eventually. -
timmy_501 — 14 years ago(February 13, 2012 06:09 PM)
Altman retrospective? Nice.
Images: I thought everything about it was really excellent. The high point for me was the editing. Of course all the illusions are handled really well but there are other big standouts such as the scene in which the woman sees herself going into the house from the mountain and then the perspective shifts to her inside the house. It's a startling moment that helps maintain the film's unsettling atmosphere. Overall it's a nicely surreal film and an interesting stylistic departure for Altman.
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timmy_501 — 14 years ago(February 13, 2012 06:51 PM)
I hadn't thought of it that way, I suppose it makes sense since the girl and the woman really seemed to click immediately. I guess I missed the part where it's revealed her father raised her. The part about the girl having a promiscuous mother seemed significant to me, doubly so if I think about it with your interpretation in mind.
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timmy_501 — 14 years ago(February 13, 2012 08:19 PM)
Good points.
I thought of it in terms of the woman's lack of freedom in her day to day life; she was dominated by other people, even including her female friend based on the opening scene. So she turns to fiction and becomes a writer so that she can create a world that she has control of. However, even this isn't eno5b4ugh and her lack of control in her own life causes her to gradually retreat from reality.
Mostly I focused on the atmosphere though. I'm glad you asked me about my interpretation, further thought on this helped crystallize my understanding of the film and deepens my appreciation for it.
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timmy_501 — 14 years ago(February 14, 2012 05:02 AM)
Nice screenshot.
It's true that she was in her own world from minute one but she was less able to hide this as the film went on and it grew more severe as well.
Let me know if anything really interesting comes up in the commentary.
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timmy_501 — 14 years ago(February 14, 2012 06:01 PM)
First three are interesting.
I don't get how the girl's father could be dead unless that entire sequence where she takes the girl home is a fantasy. Strange twist if so.
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mogliss — 14 years ago(February 20, 2012 09:50 AM)
Only seen eight, but MASH, Short Cuts and California Split are high on my watch-list.
- Nashville - 10/10
- 3 Women - 10/10
- Images - 10/10
- The Player - 9.5/10
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 9/10
- Gosford Park - 9/10
- The Long Goodbye - 8.5/10
- Dr. T and the Women - 7.5/10