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...Robert Altman has a youthful heart. Literally. While accepting an honorary Oscar, the 81-year-old director disclosed that he had had a heart transplant a decade ago, and received the organ of a woman in her 30s. Altman said he figured that gave him 40 more years in Hollywood. Someone should break it to the guy that in this town, a woman in her 40s is already over the hill...
...Chorus, nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2005). Christian Clavier co-wrote and starred in The Visitors, Josiane Balasko's many triumphs include 1989's Too Beautiful For You, comic star Thierry Lhermitte appeared in Le Divorce and Michel Blanc has been in films by Robert Altman and Roberto Benigni. They have all returned for the third time, and the cast's work as an ensemble is what makes Les Bronzés exceptional, says Jugnot: "Despite all the achievements of our independent careers, being part of this group and forging together as Les Bronz...
...make a good film about class in England? I think so. We're so neurotic about class in England that I don't think we've got the distance to make perceptive movies about it. It's taken the foreign eyes of these great directors like Woody and Robert Altman with Gosford Park and Ang Lee with Sense and Sensibility...
...that a wet and pouty Knightley against a stunning British countryside isn’t visually appealing, but Wright is far more successful at extending the narrative when he restrains himself to the intimacy of Austen’s domestic world. A tracking shot, in the style of Robert Altman, explore the rural, homespun details of the Bennett’s “socially inferior” home, while the lush ball sequences with exquisite costuming and choreography visually convey the complex relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy. Every little girl who grew up wanting to be Elizabeth Bennett...
...Altman films busy scenes in unusually long, fluid takes of five or six minutes with three, sometimes four, cameras running simultaneously. His cinematographer, Ed Lachman, says it's "like performing free-form jazz." At Altman's elbow during last month's shooting was his friend and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), standing by at the insurance company's behest in case anything happened to Altman...