A grand studio dream runs headlong into reality Nov 15, 2009
On his website, Burgess claims his company helped finance the renovation of a historic hotel in Nashville. The Miami-based group that finished that hotel s renovation in 2007 said it had never heard of Prosperity International. (Boston Globe)
A celebration of book and director Oct 24, 2009
Altman, whose film credits include M*A*S*H, Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Player, and Short Cuts, died in 2006 at the age of 81 ... Other notables in the crowd included Lauren Bacall, actor/writer Bob Balaban, The Seduction of Joe Tynan director Jerry Schatzberg, Aussie filmmaker Fred Schepisi, music producer Hal Willner, jazz singer Annie Ross, Nashville screenwriter Joan Tewksbury, actor Michael Murphy, actor Philip Baker Hall, who played Richard Nixon in Altman s one-man movie about... (Boston Globe)
In Altman biography, contradictory assessments Oct 21, 2009
Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of groundbreaking films such as M*A*S*H, Nashville, Short Cuts, and The Player, never met a Hollywood executive he trusted. Throughout his career, Altman (and his crews) maintained an us against them mentality about the studios who financed his films. (Boston Globe)
Dropping Out Aug 24, 2009
Lee is a precisian, not a prober, and you can feel the film floundering as it seeks its proper focus; now and then, as he did in Hulk, he splits the screen, like the Teichbergs dividing motel rooms into three to triple their income, but he lacks the will to nose around, to pull in and out of passing scenes, that Robert Altman brought to Nashville. Even in the fine travelling shot with which we follow Elliot toward Mr. Yasgur s meadow through a flock of fans, the procession feels not so much... (New Yorker)
Farrah Fawcett dies at age 62 Jun 26, 2009
It was arguably Altman's worst film, but it still made the point: Who in 1976 would have believed that Farrah Fawcett would be making movies 15 years later with the guy who directed "Nashville". Unfortunately for Fawcett's legacy, almost nobody saw "The Apostle" and "Dr. T and the Women." And pretty much everyone either owned or had a boyfriend or brother who owned the Poster. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
This is my final blog entry (hooray!) Jun 5, 2009
wrote on Jun 4, 2009 11:21 AM:" Re: yet another film this is apparently our 'long goodbye' to Jimmy -- and I noticed the actor David Carradine was found a suicide it seems in a hotel in Bangkok. The Carradine family was distinguished in American movies by first and foremost its patriarch, the great sinister gaunt John Carradine, who appeared in so many pics from the '30s to the '60s, often in notable John Ford directed 'classics' like 'The Hurricane,' 'The Prisoner of Shark Island,' 'Drums Along... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Cinema du food court: Great mall movies Apr 8, 2009
True StoriesIn the way that Robert Altman used the city of Nashville as a prism by which to examine the American experience post-Watergate, David Byrne traveled to Texas to use the Lone Star State as a microcosm for what was happening in all 50. One of the films bravura segments introduced with a title card that reads Shopping is a Feeling takes Byrnes narrator character through the shopping mall in the fictional town of Virgil, Texas (actually Dallass since-remodeled... (MSNBC -- News)
