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Robert Altman: Stories
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Inspired by the writings of Raymond Carver, Robert Altman's magnificent mosaic of Southern California life interweaves the funny, touching and dramatic stories of 22 characters. The ensemble cast includes Bruce Davison, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andie MacDowell, Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Chris Penn, Tim Robbins, Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, and Jack Lemmon. 183 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; deleted scenes; "making of" documentary; featurettes; isolated music score; interview; companion book. Two-disc set.
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Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Read More
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Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye" attempts to do a very interesting thing. It tries to be all genre and no story, and it almost works. It makes no serious effort to reproduce the Raymond Chandler detective novel it's based on; instead, it just takes all the characters out of that novel and lets them stew together in something that feels like a private-eye movie.
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With its four interconnecting stories, Air (* * out of four) is an attempt at fusing the styles of Robert Altman and Quentin Tarantino. The stories, based on a Chinese proverb, depict happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love.
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Featuring Bergman-like dream sequences and a love scene between an elderly couple that rivals the Furries in The Shining for unexplainable horror, 3 Women is by far Altman’s most bizarre film. The story follows young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) and her totem-like idol / symbiote Millie (Shelley Duvall)—employees at a nursing home in Palm Springs. The narrative pursues female identity intricately woven with a psycho-sexual attachment and near fusion in both sororal and motherly figures, with Duvall's Millie evoking a complex reaction of pity and aggravation in her struggles to bed or even be acknowledged by her neighbors and co-workers. Pinky becomes the wedge between her delusions, eventually leading to the younger's suicide attempt, subsequent amnesia, and rebirth as Lolita-esque darling.
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Jack Lemmon once compared Altman very favorably to John Ford on this score. Altman... wanted you to make suggestions, Lemmon noted. Altman encouraged the actor's collaboration, which Lemmon contrasted to Ford by telling the story of when on the set of Mister Roberts, he very excitedly told Ford: "John, I have an idea!" Ford immediately raised his hand to stop him: "No. No, you don't." And that was that.
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