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Gosford Park
»rank: 4639
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:À près de 80 ans, Robert Altman, mythique réalisateur de MASH, signe un 36e film complexe et substantiel. Gosford Park, dont l'intrigue est digne d'un roman d'Agatha Christie, s'est d'ailleurs vu récompensé en 2002 de l'oscar du meilleur scénario original. À l'occasion d'une partie de chasse, dans les années 30, une dizaine d'invités et leurs domestiques s'installent dans le château anglais de Sir et Lady McCordle. Comme dans Dix Petits Nègres, ce quasi huis-clos deviendra le théâtre d'un meurtre, ce qui déterrera quelques secrets de famille encombrants et ...
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Nashville (Widescreen)
»rank: 4529
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:This 1975 film sits near the top of any list of the best films of the 1970s, perhaps in the top five and, in some people's minds, at the pinnacle itself. Robert Altman, at his most Altmanesque, spins together plot strands involving two dozen people over the course of one particularly busy weekend in Music City, USA. Though several of the story lines deal with country-western stars--played by Henry Gibson, Ronee Blakley and Karen Black--the plot also deals with the country scene's wannabes, the business people ...
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Popeye (Widescreen)
»rank: 1258
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with 0live 0yl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, ...
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'Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Widescreen)'
»rank: 8387
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Robert Altman was often ahead of his time--once at the cost of being behind himself. Buffalo Bill and the lndians, a snorting exposé of the U.S. predilection for buying into heroic myths, opened on July 4, 1976. Clearly the film was positioned as the ultimate bicentennial event, Altman-style. But Altman had already delivered that a year earlier: the splendiferous, deeply disenchanted yet exhilarating Nashville. Both Nashville and Buffalo Bill are films about America-as-show business, hucksterism, and the rare miracle of performance. But everything Altman got so thrillingly ...
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Short Cuts
»rank: 8387
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:lf aliens came down to earth to see if humanity was worth saving, showing them Short Cuts, Robert Altman's bluesy riff on life in LA in the 90s, would not be a good idea. Based on the stories of Raymond Carver (adapted by Altman and Frank Barhydt), this ambitious film is a devilish valentine to living in LA, where happiness comes at a premium. There are at least eight separate stories that crisscross, most about people who choose not to relate to the lives they are living. ...
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Player (Widescreen)
»rank: 13280
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:A wicked satirical fable about corporate backstabbing--and actual murder--in the movie business, The Player benefits from director Robert Altman's long and bitter experience working within, and without, the Hollywood studio system. Rising young executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is tormented by threats from an anonymous writer. The pressure and paranoia build until Griffin loses control one night and semi-accidentally kills screenwriter David Kahane (Vincent D'0nofrio), who may or may not be the source of the threats. From that point, Griffin's life and career begin to fall ...
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A Wedding
»rank: 13280
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:A wicked satirical fable about corporate backstabbing--and actual murder--in the movie business, The Player benefits from director Robert Altman's long and bitter experience working within, and without, the Hollywood studio system. Rising young executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is tormented by threats from an anonymous writer. The pressure and paranoia build until Griffin loses control one night and semi-accidentally kills screenwriter David Kahane (Vincent D'0nofrio), who may or may not be the source of the threats. From that point, Griffin's life and career begin to fall ...
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The Long Goodbye (Widescreen)
»rank: 13335
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Raymond Chandler's cynically idealistic hero, Philip Marlowe, has been played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner--but no one gives him the kind of weirdly affect-less spin that Elliott Gould does in this terrific Robert Altman reimagining of Chandler's penultimate novel. Altman recasts Marlowe as an early '70s L.A. habitué, who gets involved in a couple of cases at once. The most interesting involves a suicidal writer (Sterling Hayden in a larger-than-life performance) whom Marlowe is supposed to keep away from malevolent New-Ageish guru Henry ...
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Dr T. and the Women (Widescreen)
»rank: 13335
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Raymond Chandler's cynically idealistic hero, Philip Marlowe, has been played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner--but no one gives him the kind of weirdly affect-less spin that Elliott Gould does in this terrific Robert Altman reimagining of Chandler's penultimate novel. Altman recasts Marlowe as an early '70s L.A. habitué, who gets involved in a couple of cases at once. The most interesting involves a suicidal writer (Sterling Hayden in a larger-than-life performance) whom Marlowe is supposed to keep away from malevolent New-Ageish guru Henry ...
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Aria
»rank: 13335
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This omnibus directors fest brings together 10 different filmmakers making 10 different films based on operatic arias. Jean-Luc Godard is stylistically the boldest, Robert Altman possibly the most imaginative, Franc Roddam celebrates American glitz, and Bruce Beresford is the most sentimental. Nearly all the other filmmakers involved--including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Julien Temple, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, and Bill Bryden--are (or were, in the case of the late Jarman) world-class talents, but you wouldn't know that from their murky participation here. --Tom Keogh
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