Ode to an Anachronism
It’s not hard to figure out why Robert Altman was the center of attention with last summer’s A Prairie Home Companion – even though we didn’t know at the time of its release that it would be his final movie.
Robert Altman
(Under-)Appreciating Altman
Now that filmmaker Robert Altman has died, we’ll find out how prophetic his 1990 film Vincent and Theo turns out to be.
Tagged: Links, Opening Shots, Robert Altman, Vincent and Theo
Films in 17 Syllables
In response to a call for movie-related haiku, I submitted the following on Robert Altman’s The Player: “The pitch, in 10 words:
Griffin Mill kills the writer,
and he steals his girl.”
Tagged: Haiku, Language, Poetry, Robert Altman, Self-Involvement
Tim and Jeff: A Love Story
I love Jeff Bridges. I love Tim Robbins. I love them equally, and (my gut tells me) in about the same way. We are a ménage à trios, even if they don’t know it yet.
Magnolia and Meaning
Magnolia breaks through the self-aware emotional vacancy of the decade’s cool movies (both sterile and knowingly clever, epitomized by Quentin Tarantino) without losing its edge; it gets inside its characters’ minds and hearts with dazzling style. It is afraid of neither elaborate tracking shots nor a good, fairly won cry.
Tagged: Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Reviews, Robert Altman
