What’s your favorite Robert Altman film? I love Gosford Park. And several others… He’s been one of the Oscars’ most overlooked talents for decades. At last, he’s getting some credit. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Oscars Robert Altman Related Specials: Sarris on where "Brokeback" is broken. Pretty woman, Gump may join Mike Nichols. CNN on religious media.Specials: Download a free Narnia script. Brad baby. Wheaton vs. Catholics.
I love Robert Altman. I saw The Long Goodbye a few years ago and for some reason it stuck with me. The last scene is so real and not Hollywood at all. It was so refeshing that a private eye movie could end on a note like that. I dont want to ruin the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it and for those who haven’t you also can’t go wrong with The Player.
There are so many I haven’t seen, but of the ones I have (in no particular order):
3 Women (so oddly compelling!)
Short Cuts
The Player
Secret Honor
And I think I liked Cookie’s Fortune, but it’s been awhile.
The Long Goodbye is handily my fave.
MASH is also wonderful.
Basically if it has Elliot Gould in it…
ummm…
Popeye?
No, probably Short Cuts.
I liked G. Park, and it definitely seemed characteristically Altman, but I almost felt like I had to understand that world to enter it.
Maybe the outside jerk looking and laughing in likes Nashville, but I think I’ll stick w/ Short Cuts because it inspired Magnolia.
Can I say that I love what Altman introduced to the medium, (mainly overlapping dialogue) without saying I actually love any of his films?
Perhaps the closest film of his ouvre that I “love” is “Nashville”… yet even that film has its faults.
Gosford Park! I watched that every day for 2 weeks when my mom died. Don’t know why but it was cathartic.
A favorite film. Glad he’s getting some recognition.