November 21, 2006
DEATH OF A LADIES MAN
RIP, Mr. Robert Altman.
One of the absolute all time greats. So many great fucking films -- MASH, Short Cuts, Nashville, The Player, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, Gosford Park. Popeye. Among many, many others. All essential viewing -- well maybe not Popeye though I sure as hell loved it as a kid. Even attempting to write a little bit about him seems trivial. It is like yet someone else writing about the Beatles.
Who else could get Julianne Moore to do that vagina monologue? Who else would give Jack Lemon a great send-off with the best piece of dialogue in what was already his astounding career? Who else could make sure Lily Tomlin will be remembered as the great actress that she really is? Or Tom Waits? Or Lyle Lovett? In the same masterpiece? Or Whoopie Goldberg? Natch, scratch that one as well. Or give movie roles to the all-encompassing awesomeness that is Richard E. Grant?
We lost the greatest actor's director in cinema today. We also lost arguably the best American director of the last 50 years.
Posted by Fran at November 21, 2006 01:20 PM