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Robert Altman: Tanner '88 (Dispatches from Zembla)

noreply@blogger.com (Alok) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:00 GMT

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...

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DVD review: Nixon: Election Year Edition (A.V. Club)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:03:33 GMT

... Nixons. But his performance pales in comparison to that of Philip Baker Hall's definitive Nixon in Robert Altman's 1984 masterpiece Secret Honor, a film that said 10 times as much about its subject as Stone's film, in well under half the time.

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Post-Vietnam Politics: Now it’s OK to Laugh (Pop + Politics)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:39:30 GMT

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 [...]

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ThinkFilm and Chairman David Bergstein face allegations of unpaid bills (LA Times)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:51:00 GMT

... impresario Elie Samaha. By 2006, they had snapped up Capitol Films, whose credits include Robert Altman's "Gosford Park," and ThinkFilm, the prestigious distributor of art-house titles such as "Half Nelson." Bergstein had become a player. But in the last few months, he and ThinkFilm have been dogged by a string of lawsuits from associates who allege they were stiffed, according to...

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Robert Altman: California Split (Dispatches from Zembla)

noreply@blogger.com (Alok) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:25:00 GMT

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....

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Conversations in Film: with Screenwriter Anne Rapp (Austinist)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:15:44 GMT

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 ?),...

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Rub It All Over (Film Experience Blog)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT

One of the funniest things my friend Nick ever said to me was when I once mentioned on the phone that I had just watched Robert Altman's Nashville . With total commitment he uttered this aside ...and I quote I want to rub that movie all over me I guffawed in surprise and then immediately thought "why yes" and then "save some for me". Slather that brilliant political animal and americana...

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NBC Announces Courtney B. Vance Will Join Real-Life Wife Angela Bassett On ER For Multi -Episode Story Arc During 15th And Final Season (Reality TV Website)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:23:19 GMT

... McTiernan's "The Hunt for Red October" and the big budget thriller "D-Tox." He was also seen in Robert Altman's small town mystery, "Cookie's Fortune," as well as "Huckleberry Finn." Vance's other feature film work includes "Hamburger Hill;" "Love and Action in Chicago," which he also co-produced; "The Last Supper," his critically-acclaimed portrayal of Bobby Seale in Gramercy Pictures...

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Julianne Moore nscreen nudity photo-shoot (Celebs planet)

noreply@blogger.com (Randy) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:29:00 GMT

She infamously made her name admonishing Matthew Modine naked from the waist down in Robert Altman's 1993 movie Short Cuts. Now, 15 years later, mother-of-two Julianne Moore remains unrepentant... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Hollywood Jungle (Washington Post)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The history of filmmakers skewering Hollywood's darker excesses is a long and rich one, from Billy Wilder through Robert Altman. With "Tropic Thunder," a rude, crude, over-the-top satire about rude, crude, over-the-top action movies, Ben Stiller makes an ambitious and surprisingly effective bid t...

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Pros From Dover has plenty of cons (Metro.co.uk)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:42:41 GMT

COMEDY REVIEW: Anyone familiar with Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH, or the Robert Altman film that followed it, will recognise 'the pros from Dover' as a phrase meaning an expert group from outside the jurisdiction of the locals; in the book, Hawkeye uses it to blag his way on to golf courses.

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Julianne Moore defends onscreen nudity in stunning new photo-shoot (In Case You Didn't Know)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:03:18 GMT

She infamously made her name admonishing Matthew Modine naked from the waist down in Robert Altman’s 1993 movie Short Cuts...

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Robert Altman: Images (Dispatches from Zembla)

noreply@blogger.com (Alok) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:27:00 GMT

I came to Robert Altman late but he has now become my favourite modern American film maker. (David Lynch also has a special place in my heart and moreover he belongs to a younger generation.) Interestingly this 1972 venture sees Altman venturing into a territory Lynch would make his own a decade later. In the interview on the DVD Altman says that he first got the idea of...

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Elliott Gould Takes Brooklyn (SpoutBlog)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:28:21 GMT

... Gould appeared in one minor masterpiece after another, including the three films he starred in for Robert Altman ( M.A.S.H. has wrapped and The Long Goodbye has one more screening at BAM tonight; California Split plays next weekend). It was Gould’s appeal to the Hollywood establishment (born from his genuine rapport with audiences–that TIME story devoted paragraphs upon paragraphs...

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Humor heads into battle (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:45:00 GMT

... (1970). Battlefield medics Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould cut up during the Korean War in Robert Altman's breakout hit, which was seen as an irreverent slap in the face to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.• "War, Inc." (2008): Audiences weren't kind to this dark comedy about a former U.S. president (Dan Aykroyd) who, after discovering that huge profits can be made if war erupts in...

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Sunny Spells (Le Bruit des Gens Autour) (Variety.com)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:18:22 GMT

Film Reviews: Echoes of Jean Renoir and Robert Altman ring through the wings of "Sunny Spells," a captivating backstage dramedy set during France's annual Avignon Theater Festival.

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Edinburgh Festival 2008: Vincent Van Gogh still has the ability to fascinate (The Telegraph)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:16:42 GMT

The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh has long attracted dramatists. Like the 1990 movie Vincent and Theo, by Robert Altman, Vincent, a one-man play by Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek fame), focuses on the relationship between the painter and his brother.The basis for the drama is Theo's oration about Vincent the week following the artist's death. Drawing upon the correspondence between...

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Elliott Gould in Person at BAM Friday and Saturday Night (Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:09:42 GMT

Your pick: Little Murders on Friday at 6:30 or The Long Good Bye (directed by Robert Altman) on Saturday at 6:30. Elliott Gould will be there to do a Q&A with audience members. Check the BAM site (bam.org) for more 'tails.

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P.T. Anderson, Maya Rudolph, Fred Amisen Offer Limited Time Stage Laughs (Big Screen Little Screen)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:11:39 GMT

Unheard from since her final Saturday Night Live performance back in November of last year, I was getting ready to draft some “Have You Seen Her” posters for Maya Rudolph prior to learning that she’d be working with husband P.T. Anderson once more (Paul ghost-helmed A Prairie Home Companion for the then-ailing Robert Altman), in [...]

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Woody Allen goes back to a place he never really left (The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:51:55 GMT

... Point," EW's Owen Gleiberman noted that it's "the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made the Player." In 2003, when "Anything Else," the thinly disguised Soon-Yi love story -- we mean fictional intergnerational romantic comedy -- hit Venice, the Guardian said that "after 14 years and as many attempts to recapture his old magic, the New York director has...

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