Screened November 15, 2009 on Columbia Tri-Star DVD TSPDT rank #968 IMDb Wiki This tight, modest picture may not have the presumptions to Monumental Importance as Nashville, but in many ways it’s a more quintessential Robert Altman movie, if not a better film. Whereas Nashville maintains an Olympian perspective on its swarming ensemble, California Split inhabits a more complicated [...]
This month the KC Public Library is showing several movies by Kansas Citian Robert Altman. Tonight is Short Cuts from 1993, 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library. Get the details at www.kclibrary.org.
As anyone who knows the film well might realize, the idea of a special screening of Robert Altman’s masterpiece THE LONG GOODBYE at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Village was very appropriate if only because the museum is located by the corner of Wilshire & Westwood, situated exactly where Elliott Gould’s Phillip Marlowe chases after the Mercedes driven by Nina van Pallandt’s Eileen...
IMDb Wiki The following quotes are found on the They Shoot Pictures Director page for Robert Altman: “Robert Altman is American cinema’s greatest iconoclast. Prolific, experimental, visionary and ambitious, he is a director whose career spans over five decades and includes over thirty feature films. Known as a maverick director (a label he denies), Altman eschews the market-oriented [...]...
My second review written specifically for the website Gone Cinema Poaching is for the film 35 Shots of Rum , directed by French provocatress Claire Denis. I caught the film at Film Forum waaaay back in late September (a side trip from the NYFF screenings) and am only now writing the review. Rather late, but hey, here it is now so get over it. Anyway, as I said, this is my second review for GCP and...
With its intertwining stories of family and the connections that bind and tear us apart, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English language feature evokes the work of any number of filmmakers, in particular Robert Altman (though some have also compared the film to the work of Guillermo Arriaga or Paul Haggis). That's not to say, however, that Mammoth is derivative. The director creates his own...
Today's guest post comes courtesy of the brilliant and funny lady behind Loose Leaf Tigers -- a blog dedicated to girl crushes, great art, and gasp-worthy fashion finds... B onjour! It is such an honor for me to be guest posting here at Nothing Elegant; one of the most stylish, eclectic and intelligent blogs i have come across. I visit here almost every day, and so should you! With winter fast approaching,...
The latest installment of the vaunted PBS series Independent Lens is No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos. The documentary about the legendary Hungarian cinematographers debuts this week around the country. Check your local listings for time and channel. Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond met at film school in Budapest in the 1950s. When Soviet tanks rumbled [...]
strong>“NASHVILLE” </strong>Kaleidoscopic study of Country City USA during a presidential campaign. With Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine and Lily Tomlin. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library. <strong>“SHORT CUTS” </strong>The lives of a dozen Los Angelinos intersect in this Robert Altman opus. 6:30 p.m. Monday,...
A.J. Schnack - 2009 Bonfire Films of America At the time of the Democratic Convention last year, I lived about a mile from the Pepsi Center where most of the activity took place. The convention did not affect my...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Paul Newman's career was so prolific that any collection of his movies would naturally be incomplete. But "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection" has some big omissions and who-cares inclusions that prevent it from being a masterpiece....
I can't quite describe how I feel about Francesco Vezzoli's work; that's not how my mama raised me. I'll say though, that he's extremely smart and astute and has successfully identified an elemental dynamic of the art world and makes...
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Gould, 71, received an Oscar nomination for 1969’s swinging dramedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and co-starred with Donald Sutherland in Robert Altman’s film version of M*A*S*H.
LOS ANGELES – Larry Gelbart, the comedy writer famed for his work on "M-A-S-H" and "Tootsie," has died. Gelbart died at his Beverly Hills home Friday morning after a long battle with cancer, said Creative Artists Agency, which represented him, He was 81. Gelbart won a Tony award for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and an Emmy for "M-A-S-H," the classic TV comedy based on the Robert...
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