Word: altmans
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...does not take long for Anderson's fluid camera to lure us into this world. Anderson comes from the movie-buff school of filmmaking, and his film pays homage in many ways to the filmmakers who came of age in the 1970s, most notably Robert Altman and Martin Scorcese. The tracking shot, which Scorcese brought to a new level, is used early and often to full effect in Boogie Nights. The opening shot swoops down the street and through the doors of a topless disco, wherein it follows nightclub manager TT Rodriguez (Luis Guzman) as he meets and greets...
...Daniel Altman '96, a teaching fellow for the class and a former Crimson executive, said that there were three main reasons for adopting the new textbook...
...director win against a studio? Maybe. Robert Altman's cut for The Gingerbread Man didn't get the response at test screenings that PolyGram wanted. So, although Altman threatened to take his name off the film, the studio had a new editor chop off eight minutes. But the new cut tested only a little better. The studio chose to keep the Altman version--and his name...
...course, Altman only spends as much time on the actors in the drama as he does on what many might think the real star of the film: the musicians and their music. In one stunning, rollicking sequence, two jazz musicians duel away: the camera rushes from one to the other, then to both, and finally, plainly, gives up and lets us listen. And the eyes of the jazz musicians alone hold another entire movie with-in the movie. The music functions as a kind of running commentary on the movie: horns roar and seem to laugh cynically as one event...
...view of the film unfairly pulls apart the flowing, organic whole of the piece. If the movie is advertised as Altman's return to the town of his youth, then there may be more than one viewer vaguely envying the director, whatever the criminal underworld depicted alongside the jazz. Down to the challenging ending--which opens up a valuable re-thinking of the characters--"Kansas City" provides an intelligent feast for the eyes--and the ears...