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RIP Robert Altman

Curious Inquiry
21-11-2006, 22:06
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Pyotr
21-11-2006, 22:07
Who was he?
ConscribedComradeship
21-11-2006, 22:09
Who was he?

To quote the great and the lazy: "Google is your friend."
Curious Inquiry
21-11-2006, 22:10
Who was he?

Film director, one of the best. The "sad face" is a link . . .
Johnny B Goode
21-11-2006, 22:10
Robert Altman was a satirical film director. He produced many 70s counterculture films, MASH (1970) and Nashville (1975) among them.

I loved the MASH film and I have it on DVD. :(

May he rest in peace.
Cannot think of a name
22-11-2006, 00:05
Ah man, I had just found an overall understanding of his autuer-ness. It took his whole career for me to figure that cat out (alright, I wasn't really paying attention for most of it and was just catching up...), and now that I've got it sorted there will me no more new Altman films for me to test my understanding.

Thanks, Mr. Altman. I liked your films, it was a good, full life.
I V Stalin
22-11-2006, 00:22
Damn. I can't think of many directors who I'd be sad to see die, but Altman is/was certainly one of them.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
22-11-2006, 01:12
Ah man, I had just found an overall understanding of his autuer-ness. It took his whole career for me to figure that cat out (alright, I wasn't really paying attention for most of it and was just catching up...), and now that I've got it sorted there will me no more new Altman films for me to test my understanding.

Thanks, Mr. Altman. I liked your films, it was a good, full life.

We could totally catch up together - I have a long list of Altman movies I still have to see. :/

:(
Cannot think of a name
22-11-2006, 01:17
We could totally catch up together - I have a long list of Altman movies I still have to see. :/

:(

(I'm not really here, I'm actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm not running behind again. This is all an illusion...)

In film school we got to the point where towards the end of senior year classes we would veto being shown the first seven minutes of The Player, not because it wasn't good-but because every third class the professor would show us the first seven minutes of The Player-I practically know that damn thing by heart...much more meaningful and less gratuitous than Snake Eyes 20 minute long tracking shot...[/film nerdiness]

(seriously, I didn't stop off while I was rushing off just to do this. You're a crazy person to think so.)
Whereyouthinkyougoing
22-11-2006, 01:25
(I'm not really here, I'm actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm not running behind again. This is all an illusion...)

In film school we got to the point where towards the end of senior year classes we would veto being shown the first seven minutes of The Player, not because it wasn't good-but because every third class the professor would show us the first seven minutes of The Player-I practically know that damn thing by heart...much more meaningful and less gratuitous than Snake Eyes 20 minute long tracking shot...[/film nerdiness]

(seriously, I didn't stop off while I was rushing off just to do this. You're a crazy person to think so.)

*pats and gives sad-faced Altman Memorial Cookie*
Boonytopia
22-11-2006, 10:35
That's a real shame. I liked his films, I'll have to go & see A Prairie Home Companion now.