Nine things about Altman
Nine reasons why Robert Altman mattered, as assembled by Toronto Star critic Geoff Pevere: he was brilliant at ensemble pieces, he was phenomenally "in the zone" from '70 to '75, his pioneering use of multi-track, overlapping sound, he always packed lots of visual information into scenes and was sometimes into long takes (like that famous opening shot in The Player), he was a superb genre-deconstuctor, he was great at inspiring and capturing improvisation, he had a running stock company of actors who turned up time and again, he was always pissed off about something and put these beefs into his films, and he never stopped working.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 25, 2006 at 8:20 AM
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Mike Schaefer
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In the past week I've seen 2 less-than-successful "Altmanesque" films, Fast Food Nation and Bobby. And after both, I sat as the credits rolled and thought "Imagine what Altman at his peak could've done with that material."
Posted by Mike Schaefer
at November 25, 2006 10:15 AM
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gabriela24
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Hopefully no one to optreasca of work, and why that matters will certainly be much more in coming years.
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Posted by gabriela24
at January 24, 2012 4:18 AM