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Robbin' Banks and Hearts: Thieves Like Us
– – – Contains Spoilers – – – America has always been obsessed with the doomed romantic tale of the bank robbing couple on the…
In Two Minds: Exploring Schizophrenia in Altman's Images
Altman manages to treat the subject of schizophrenia in a sensitive manner without glamourizing it or mocking the illness. Images remains one of Altman’s strongest pieces, and has become forgotten in his vast filmography.
''I yam what I yam.'' Why Popeye is Altman's forgotten masterpiece
Popeye wasn’t the commercial bomb that many believe. In fact the film grossed $6 million on its opening weekend in the U.S., and made $32,000,000 after 32 days. Although the film’s gross was decent, it was nowhere near the blockbuster that Paramount and Disney had expected, and was thus written off as a flop.
Quiet on the set: Breaking down the opening shot in Altman's The Player
”Quiet on the set,” are the first words we hear in the opening of Robert Altman’s The Player (1992), and instantly we know that we’re witnessing something that seems rare, and seldom heard of by those outside the film industry.
