robert altman dies
 

just on the news. very sad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6170376.stm

Bummer.

But, hey, people die all the time. He was in a bad way, wasn't he, near the end?

i have no idea. he was quite old.

he made some great films though, the player and shortcuts etc.

He was always quite drunk too it is said.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a great movie.
Vincent & Theo is good, and The Player is okay.

That's about all I can really praise Altman's work.

81 though, wow.

damn. Now my grandfather has outlived tons of people (he is 96)

MASH is great, of course. Nashville is wonderful.

I was never an Altman fan. Kubrick meant much more to me.

Haven't seen most of his films. Mash was good and Popeye was poor but funny when I was a kid. Robin Williams played the spinach sailor very well.

checkout the player, very good.

chocolate, vanilla, it's all ice cream and it's all good.

i recently watched "gosford park" and loved it. altman was a really really important director. sure i like kubrick a lot more. but altman did a lot i think for ensemble movies and character-driven pieces, so he was more of an actor's director, while kubrick had the soul of a cinematographer above all else. anyway, what was the story... oh shit, i'm sad altman has died, but that was a decent career he had. oh, i saw "brewster mccloud" some years ago and that was one weird movie! i loved it.

Will do.