Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Relatively new on the London gallery scene is the Idea Generation Gallery, which open earlier this year. It has made a fine choice for its summer show as visitors will be treated to the “The Sixties: Photographs by Robert Altman”....
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Joe Valdez has another movie review up - and this time it's about one of my favorites: Robert Altman's The Player. I did not know that Sidney Lumet was originally attached as a director, and that Robert Altman did the...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Robert Altman on 'blowing dope' with the Rolling Stones - Times Online : "In this life I have been hung on by Janis Joplin; smoked dope with the Stones; smorgasborded with Mel Torme; crashed a $1,000-a-head party with Tony Bennett; was the actress Jane Russell’s dinner escort; been photographed by Jerry Garcia; danced with the MGM star Marge Champion as well as slow-danced with Lana Turner’s infamous...
/Film (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Everyone is wondering: What is Paul Thomas Anderson going to direct next? A big screen adaptation of Metal Gear Solid? Nope. Power Play? Unlikely… A Los Angeles Stage Production starring two cast members from SNL? Ding Ding Ding! … Wait, what?! On August 5th and 6th. Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen will be appearing together in [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
One of the more peculiar artifacts of '80s cinema, "Aria" consists of 10 short films of scenes from wildly different operas (Signors Verdi and Puccini, meet Monsieurs Lully and Rameau), each from a different director.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
LONDON.- The Idea Generation Gallery invites you to take a trip…down Memory Lane, through Haight-Ashbury and across Golden Gate Park to turn on, tune in, drop out at the naked love-ins and anti-war sit-ins; at the psychedelic be-ins and the politicized happenings and meditate upon the spirit, body and soul of The Sixties - the first UK exhibition from Robert Altman, chief staff photographer of Rolling...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, shame CSI with their collection of crime dramas (which includes a "bitchslapping" Perry Mason)
StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Claudia Schiffer made her first appearance on celluloid in Richie Rich (1994), as an aerobics instructor. The role apparently encouraged some real-world pursuits, as she would release a line of workout videos the following year. Also in 1994, she was a natural to cameo in Robert Altman's fashion industry send-up Ready to Wear, the first [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Robert Altman, chief staff photographer at Rolling Stone, takes us on a photographic tour
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In the old days, everyone would beg me to take them to an early screening of a Woody Allen film.
KOMO - News - Entertainment (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The insanely catchy hit inspired a hugely successful Broadway musical a decade ago and now is the basis for a big, summer movie. "Mamma Mia!" is a massive mess, but it's fun - exuberantly goofy, sloppily crafted fun, especially if you're not in the mood for thinking too hard.
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
By: Bernard Chazelle For his movie "Kansas City," Robert Altman assembled some of the biggest names in jazz. This outtake features a Lester Young standard, Tickletoe. The narrator, Harry Belafonte, refers to "cutting contests." People often think of early jazz players as slackers noodling around blues scales for a living. In fact, their environment was fiercely competitive. Players would compete one-on-one...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
THE POWER of love is a curious thing, is it not? It makes one man weep, and another man sing. It can change a hawk into a little white dove. Not literally, obviously; that wou
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The lifelong card player who wrote Robert Altman’s beloved drama California Split has another feature length gambling tale up his sleeve.
In Case You Didn't Know (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Julianne Moore has no plans to stop stripping off for movie roles as she grows older...
