Comments on: The Essentials: The Films Of Robert Altman https://staging2.theplaylist.net/robert-altman-best-essentials-20160531/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: mjw https://staging2.theplaylist.net/robert-altman-best-essentials-20160531/#comment-152899 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=32376#comment-152899 In reply to SnarkySkunk.

I find the above comment very insightful: yes, indeed, they sometimes click later. Last night’s 3rd viewing of Cookie’s Fortune convinced me that this belongs in the top echelon of Altman’s work. And every time I see Nashville it either shoots right up – or far down in my estimation. The Company, though, bored me, and I lack the impetus to re-watch it.

]]> By: DG https://staging2.theplaylist.net/robert-altman-best-essentials-20160531/#comment-25816 Tue, 31 May 2016 18:06:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=32376#comment-25816 Whoa, 3 Women and Brewster McCloud ratings should be way higher

]]> By: SnarkySkunk https://staging2.theplaylist.net/robert-altman-best-essentials-20160531/#comment-25815 Tue, 31 May 2016 17:16:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=32376#comment-25815 Altman is a difficult filmmaker to assess, and it really depends on your state of mind for how his films will actually affect you. They can ‘click’ later in life, after a particular hardship or an unexpected transition. Because of that, I don’t think I’ve run across a director with a body of work so universally respected, but full of individual films that can be so independently divisive. For example: I agree completely with this article’s assessment of McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Long Goodbye, but I find Nashville to be an interminable bore. For every one of his respected films, it’s easy to find a small but sturdy faction of respectable critics that not only oppose the work, but rather aggressively so. Even that is encouraging though, because it means there may be a time later in life where even a film you hated by him will breathe with new life. Altman worked to his own rhythm and made films with the uncanny ability to capture not just moments in time, but feelings too, and that makes his work ripe for exploration.

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