I might watch a Robert Altman movie tonight to reset my brain.
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Shout out to my old film professor Martin Rubin, who now works at the Gene Siskel Film Center, who showed California Split to a film class I was in circa 1990. It was 16 mm “squeezed” print and I had to put an anamorphic lens on the projector.
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Is there an African-American equivalent of Robert Altman? I feel like the closest might be Charles Burnett but he has really never done that panoramic jumble of life thing. Parts of Coogler’s Fruitvale Station hit that sweet spot for me.
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Quite a '70s image here. Your eyeballs might turn into polyester or corduroy looking at it.pic.twitter.com/BLNUACUrde
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(Mental note: need to rewatch MASH and *really* listen to it.)
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A LOT of modern filmmakers wouldn’t have the nerve to do a LOT of things Altman did.
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Robert Kolker's essay in his Cinema of Loneliness book and David Self's Subliminal Reality cover that area nicely. Bests Altman's texts all around.
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Not enough talk about him period, the man is one of the all time greatest. 70’s Altman alone is literally some of the greatest films you’ll ever see.
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The scene with Charles Champlin, Burt Reynolds, Tim Robbins and Brion James at Geoffreys in THE PLAYER is a masterful example.
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Back in school, I had a professor who told us that Altman was a master of a very specific special effect. He didn't elaborate until after he screened Nashville and it's seemingly endless dialogue tracks. To this day, I haven't seen so many people's brains simultaneously melt.
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