Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, director Robert Altman weaves these themes into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with...
...ALTMAN FILMS FLASHBACKS with the characters in the same positions as they are in the present, enabling the actresses to reveal even more sides of their characters. Without changing makeup or costumes, Altman does away with the pretentious attempts at shifting back and forth 20 years by forcing the actors to make up the different times with their voices and movements...
...plot is reminiscent of Tennessee Williams' plays, grounded in the Deep South and illustrating unusual contrasts between the stagnation of the environment and the unique depravity of the characters. Altman manipulates the setting and the characters in a similar way by having the demoralization and depravity of the external world converge with the stagnant heat and aridity of the South. The brutal backdrop of the heat-filled environment sets off the characters' sweaty breathlessness as if the storm that hasn't come for 20 years was about to burst. And the film drowns out any potential for platitudes and mundaneness...
...Long Island Sound in a fishing boat they call Cocadetoro (in fractured Spanish, bullcrap). His bawdiness can be spectacular; and, says Susan, she and her sisters are constantly heading off raunchy stories with not-now-Dad looks flashed across the room. After years of complaining that Robert Altman's cheap white wine tasted like goat pee, he gave the director a baby goat, saying, "Here, now you have your own vineyard." In a similar mood, he once had Robert Redford's face printed on every sheet of 150 cartons of toilet paper (which, on second thought...
Quintet (1979): Again, made a mistake somewhere. Director Robert Altman is very interesting, a real explorer...