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Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Images, 1972

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Images, 1972 Prix d’interprétation féminine – Susannah York…

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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.

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How Robert Altman Drove the Cinema Bus into Seventies Glory and Beyond

The musical became Nashville, the private dick, The Long Goodbye, and the psychodrama, Images. Thieves Like Us was the deglamorized gangster flick, California Split the chaotically atmospheric gambling pic. The language of American film had begun to evolve again, after a very long nap.

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Vilmos Zsigmond – Images from a Renegade Camera

He broke every rule in the standard cinematographers’ catechism – and caught much flack for it early in his career. Then people began to catch on. This was a new visual language, an impressionistic wash that Zsigmond applied that elevated the films – and the directors he worked for – into a unique category, all their own.

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