Robert Altman
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Oh man, that really, really sucks. I kinda wondered if Prairie Home Companion was going to be his last movie... he did not look healthy but he seemed like such a tough, old guy, though.tryavna wrote:Alas, yes.
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At least he left behind an impressive legacy of work.
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He was just at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York with Garrison Keillor three weeks ago too. No matter the age of someone when they die, if they are still working continually then it always comes as a bigger shock to me.
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God, how depressing. The man was a giant. For me, you can take nearly any scene from McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, Nashville, 3 Women, The Player, or Shortcuts and have them stand as pure emblems of American cinema. Few managed to blend European cerebralism and American pragmatism as skillfully and as effortlessly as Altman. I find the world to be a little quieter today....
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At the risk of seeming morbid, and despite my reservations about the film itself, it would definitely be a fitting end to Altman's oeuvre. It was an "old man's movie" in the sense that it was a meditation on mortality - a film about learning how to die.Fletch F. Fletch wrote:Oh man, that really, really sucks. I kinda wondered if Prairie Home Companion was going to be his last movie... he did not look healthy but he seemed like such a tough, old guy, though.
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From the Washington Post:
"Mr. Altman loved making movies. He loved the chaos of shooting and the sociability of the crew and actors _ he adored actors _ and he loved the editing room and he especially loved sitting in a screening room and watching the thing over and over with other people," Keillor said in a statement to The Associated Press. "He didn't care for the money end of things, he didn't mind doing publicity, but when he was working he was in heaven."
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I've only seen some of his work he did after The Player which is one of my favorites, but for awhile I've been interested in his work prior to that film. I'm really glad that I finally saw one of his films in the theater before he died, when I saw Prairie Home Companion. And it's so obviously fitting that that be his final work, dealing with the issue of life and death the way it does.
THE PLAYER is another wonderful film, as is SHORT CUTS. Somehow I get the strange impression that Altman "felt it" when he made A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. It's as much an artist's visionary testament as GERTRUD or LOVE STREAMS and for me the finest film of 2006.flyonthewall2983 wrote:I've only seen some of his work he did after The Player which is one of my favorites, but for awhile I've been interested in his work prior to that film. I'm really glad that I finally saw one of his films in the theater before he died, when I saw Prairie Home Companion. And it's so obviously fitting that that be his final work, dealing with the issue of life and death the way it does.
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The Player was my intro to the world of Robert Altman and after that one I quickly devoured most of the '70s output which still remains my fave period of his work -- MASH, The Long Goodbye, and California Split remain the holy trilogy of Altman-Gould team-ups that I will always cherish.flyonthewall2983 wrote:I've only seen some of his work he did after The Player which is one of my favorites, but for awhile I've been interested in his work prior to that film.
Of course, that is not to say I don't dig many of his other films of his, just not as intensely. I'm just glad that he was truly appreciated in his time.
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This was highly upsetting as he was one of the great directors. The first film I ever saw of his was MASH and I absolutely fell in love. As has been said, even his flops have moments of brilliance that showed him to be a true artist. In my opinion, I would rather see a director try something new and fail than see them make the same thing over and over, and Altman seemed to always be trying something new. And one last note: Prairie Home Companion was a very beautiful way of saying goodbye.
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