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...problem can be blamed on the studios. Altman finds that there is a reluctance among current audiences to "go for anything that's new and exciting. They sit back and say we can't do anything about it anyway and so just giggle and give in." What they're giving in to is, in part at least, the Nixon administration's campaign to change the public mind. "And it's worked," Altman commented, "even with younger people, the Nixon campaign has worked much more than we sense. The whole attitude of the country has taken an aesthetic back-step...
...seriously Altman takes his film-making is indicated by some of the stories surrounding the filming of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. On location in the wilds of British Columbia, Altman had the entire cast work on constructing the set--a whole town at the edge of the late frontier--to bring the cast together. He put objects in drawers that would never be opened to heighten the actors' sense of authenticity. He has used a similar care in the choice of his actors: many of those in Thieves are non-professionals. These include the producer's wife, and star Shelley...
...Altman says, he much prefers the professional actor or actress if available. Rarely have Hollywood or the acting schools appreciated someone of Shelley Duvall's gentle, engaging plainness and authenticity. And yet a more conventional star, Julie Christie, whom Altman used to brilliant advantage in McCabe, would normally be beyond the budgets he now has to work with. In planning his latest feature, Nashville, to be shot beginning in July, Altman recognized that one of the parts "is really...
Nashville, a study of the country music business, will follow a film Altman has already finished shooting, California Split, starring George Segal and Elliot Gould. California Split, in Altman's words, "is an atmospheric film about gambling. It has no story, no plot, but it does have a progression. It may put a lot of people off, but I'm just trying to deal with film where I reach somebody emotionally...
...Altman has definite favorites among the pantheon of established directors: Huston, Bergmann, Bertolucci "with his tremendous eye," and Passer ("Intimate Lighting is one of the best movies I've ever seen.") "These are people I can never touch," Altman says...