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In 1972, Robert Altman showcased Images at Cannes, where it won a Best Actress award for star Susannah York. After receiving spotty theatrical distribution, negative American reviews, and poor commercial returns, it's rarely been seen since. Some rumors even had Columbia Pictures burning the negative. Thankfully, that turned out to be untrue, as the quiet arrival of a new DVD version attests. In the intervening years, those who did catch Images have given the film a dual reputation as, depending on who's doing the telling, a masterpiece or a pretentious mess. In many respects, it's only appropriate for it to provoke a split response.
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Columbia picked up the distribution rights (Altman was a hot property in 1971) and entered Images in the New York Film Festival. Inexplicably, neither of the two principal film critics for the New York Times (Vincent Canby and Roger Greenspan) chose to review it, and it was dismissed in a blistering and largely unperceptive review by Howard Thompson ("a mishmash")[1]. And that was that. The film never achieved a normal commercial release in America. It had its Chicago-area premiere last February at Northwestern University and its first theatrical 35mm showing last weekend at the Biograph. It undoubtedly will return in one or another repertory series."
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Reeve, who died October 10 in New York, starred with Jane Seymour in the romantic classic, which was filmed at Grand Hotel in 1979. Members of the International Network of "Somewhere in Time" Enthusiasts (INSITE) who will gather for Grand Hotel's 14th annual "Somewhere in Time" Weekend quickly decided to devote this year's program to Reeve's memory.
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Bryan Whitefield lives on New York City's Lower East Side. Bryan studied film with Stan Brakhage and Suranjan Ganguly where he was introduced to Cassavettes, Kieslowski, Italian Neo-Realism and the smug self-satisfaction of being a film snob. Bryan is ... a working screenwriter with one finished script, another in development and a bunch of really good ideas he hasn't written down yet.
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When Reeve's costar, Jane Seymour, returned for an appearance at the convention in 2002, Reeve called from New York to speak to 850 fans at the hotel. Because of his spinal cord injury, he was not able to attend.
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Phil Nugent lives in New York and is the movie columnist for the world music magazine Global Rhythm. He ... contributes regularly to the e-zine The High Hat and maintains the blog The Phil Nugent Experience.
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