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Rachel Getting Married is the best Altman movie in 15 years. Of course, this film is not by Robert Altman, but by Jonathan Demme, one of America’s great filmmakers, of a generation that came up behind the Altmans and others of the early 70s, who made his first high profile film, Melvin and Howard , one decade after Altman’s M*A*S*H* . Twenty-eight years later, Demme pays tribute to Altman with the...
A week or so ago, one of A's weekend questions was about favorite movies. Among my suggestions was Robert Altman's Nashville, which I think is a must for any political movie buff. The film has a huge cast of characters,...
There's a place and time for discussing the inanity of movie lists — usually early January, right when the radius of critics' annual Top 10 circle jerk is at its widest. But a few prime...
"A few weeks ago, a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors sat down to celebrate our celluloid city by selecting the 25 films from the last 25 years that best speak to the essential DNA of the...
Besides the glaring absence of “Grand Canyon,” and a few others based an apparent rule disallowing more than one film per director, the LA Times has put together a solid selection of films highlighting Los Angeles. I can’t argue much with a list that is topped by “L.A. Confidential,” a personal favorite, and also includes “Fletch,” [...]
We can't mock Sarah Palin as an ingénue because she's posing as a hero. We can't mock her faux heroics because she's an innocent ingénue. What do to? Never fear, it might mean curtains for John McCain.
Ed. note: It's time for another installment of "VHS Or Beta?", where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies—from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the sounds of two mid-'70s movies by famed director Robert Altman, California Split and Thieves Like Us : Film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum contributed an essay to Stop Smiling...
I spent most of last weekend watching the mini-series Tanner '88 and its sequel Tanner on Tanner both directed by Robert Altman and written by "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau. Overall eight hours pretty well spent. I think these two will serve as excellent companion pieces to Altman's classic Nashville - all together they are like a mini-course in American politics, media and culture. Besides being...
Are we finally ready to laugh at the Vietnam War? And does this say anything about Barack Obama’s chances in November? Ben Stiller’s Vietnam/Hollywood spoof Tropic Thunder has been the No. 1 movie for the past two weekends. Stiller nimbly eviscerates whiny stars, pretentious directors with too much “vision,” contract-obsessed agents and bloviating studio heads who [...]
In the last few months, Bergstein and ThinkFilm have been dogged by a string of lawsuits from associates who allege they were stiffed. Hollywood is a club. But when an outsider with bundles of cash arrives on the scene, the newcomer usually is granted immediate entree. Talent agents, hungry to land clients their next movie, flock to anyone with an open checkbook.
As a recent Robert Altman convert I have been trying to see as many of his films as I can. He had an almost incredible run of artistic (if not always commercial) success in the 70s. This 1974 film suffers in comparison a little but that is only because other films like McCabe and Mrs Miller, MASH, Images, Nashville, The Long Goodbye and Thieves Like Us are all such great masterpieces. I will try to...
Conversations in Film: With Screenwriter Anne Rapp Sunday, August 24 Renaissance Hotel at the Arboretum ( 9721 Arboretum Blvd ) Seminar at 3pm, Screening at 5pm; $17, $12 for AFF members [ info ] | [ tickets ] Whether you love Robert Altman or hate him, you can’t argue that he makes films like nobody else. Mash , Nashville , McCabe and Mrs. Miller , Popeye (who could forget Popeye ?), Short Cuts —the...
