Sneelock wrote:it's a style. I just really like his style. the characters interact with their surroundings and each other a certain way. he took the great post war movie genres and kicked them in the nuts, one way or the other. he let actors be more important than the story often to good effect. he had a world view.
I came of movie worshipping age when that whole "auteur" theory was going gangbusters and no single filmaker seemed to walk the walk as much as Altman.
I'm not trying to win you over. I just like talking about it. I think he was amazing.
Yeah, I'd go with that. I really like the um 'vibe' of
McCabe & Mrs Miller and
the Long Goodbye, the sense that the film ebbs and flows at exactly the speed it has to- no more or less. Did Robert Altman ever work with Elmore Leonard? If not that's a shame, because I reckon they would've been a really good fit--Elmore's dialogue is all about the beats in between the lines, if you will and the love of venacular. Altman's cinema at its best is equally conversational.
It's before my time but I've been told, he never came back from Karangahape Road.
