Robert Altman
While scanning Official de Spectacle I discovered that Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller was playing tomorrow September 14 (English with French subtitles) at the Christine-4 rue Christine at 2PM and I immediately began recalling some of my favourites.
He achieved major success with MASH, and NASHVILLE but MCCABE and MRS. MILLER, THE LONG GOODYE and THE PLAYER cemented his legacy.
This visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend--comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with M*A*S*H.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
A gambler (Warren Beatty) and a prostitute (Julie Christie) become business partners in a remote Old NorthWest mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. Warren thinks he is the Alpha male but he hadn't met Julie...
Vilmos Zsigmond's photography is nothing short of gorgeous and Leonard Cohen's score haunts the film.
THE LONG GOODBYE
Elliot Gould's Phillip Marlowe is a 40's PI living in the 70s. Altman had a genius for casting and tapped the zeitgeist for Clifford Irving's lover, Nina van Pallandt and former major league pitcher and author of Ball Four, Jim Bouton as Terry Lennox.
John Williams score pulsates.
The Player
Tim Robbins is a Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one?
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