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Kingfish
 Post subject: See you on the other side Robert Altman.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:52 pm 
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RIP. 81. Cause of death unknown as of now.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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Wow. A giant of terrible American Cinema.

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Big fan.
Big sad.

RIP.

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Sen. LooGAR, Dogpuncher Wrote:
Wow. A giant of terrible American Cinema.

RIP
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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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He's been defying laws of mortality for some time. I liked him.

The essentials:
The Player
The Long Goodbye
M*A*S*H
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Odds Bodkins
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Moxie Wrote:
He's been defying laws of mortality for some time. I liked him.

The essentials:
The Player
The Long Goodbye
M*A*S*H


Nashville, Short Cuts... he left quite a legacy.
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Only saw his last, A Prairie Home Companion, but liked it, enough.

Wonder if he had anything in the works? If so, will Paul Thomas Anderson take the reins & finish them.

(P.T. Anderson was Altman's second during the APHC filming.)
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Some of his films I've never seen but of the ones I have...


Great: Nashville, MASH, Buffalo Bill, McCabe & Mrs.Miller, Images, Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Vincent & Theo

good: Brewster McCloud, The Long Goodbye, A Prairie Home Companion, Popeye, Pret-A-Porter, The Gingerbread Man, Gosford Park

ok: Thieves Like Us, 3 Women, A Perfect Couple

ick: Dr. T & The Women

probably ick: the other obscurities from the past quarter century I never got around to watching

so bad it's amazing and I've seen it many times: Quintet


Somehow I've never seen The Player.


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I dig Short Cuts. Any movie that has Huey Lewis and Tom Waits in a diner scene can't be bad.

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Moxie Wrote:
He's been defying laws of morality for some time. I liked him.


Always a nude scene. Or four.
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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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RIP, Mr Altman.
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He knew he was going to die soon hence the making of A Prairie Home Companion.

RIP - he lived a very productive and influential life. I only wish I could work in only the music that I love.

M*A*S*H* is in my Top 10 favs.
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Kingfish
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I've only seen one Robert Altman flick being Gosford Park, which was sleep inducing or maybe I was really tired.

I've always meant to watch Nashville and MASH but never got around to it.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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I really liked McCabe & Mrs. Miller. And the Player has that great Touch of Evil-esqe opening shot

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