I really liked this article about an Altman retrospective: “The Brattle celebrates 100 years of Robert Altman with summer-long series“ I particularly liked the comments on: Shelley Duvall. So many people these days seem to know her mostly (or entirely) from The Shining (and all the stories about how Kubrick abused her to get that […]
The AV Club has a pretty good article about Robert Altman here: www.avclub.com/articles/robert-altman,57945/. I disagree with a few things, and there are a couple of factual errors, but in general it’s a very good overview of Altman and his work.
A friend just emailed me the news that Robert Altman has died. I emailed back: It’s too bad, of course, but not surprising, and it makes him one of only two major directors I can think of who went out at the peak of his powers, after a long career, and with a final film […]
It’s been a while since I posted. I’ve been accumulating little notes here and there about things I could write about, but none of them were really strong enough for a whole blog post. So, here is a selection: 1) “No Comfort” by Fintan O’Toole I read O’Toole quite often, mostly about politics, but this […]
1) “Denis Villeneuve: ‘Frankly, I Hate Dialogue. Dialogue Is For Theatre And Television’“ “Frankly, I hate dialogue,” the filmmaker told The Times of London in a recent interview. “Dialogue is for theatre and television. I don’t remember movies because of a good line, I remember movies because of a strong image. I’m not interested in […]
I have mixed feelings about the Wes Anderson movies I’ve seen. (This is not a question of “love/hate,” by the way. People use “love/hate” quite often for things which — as far as I can tell — never rise to the level of “love” or “hate.” This is just mixed feelings.) Some people say all […]