Ok, let’s try this again.
Sorry about flaking out last week. Due to circumstances beyond our control…yadda yadda.
But we’re on for tomorrow night, Thursday, March 11, at 10 PM Eastern. Please join us for the penultimate gathering of the First Virtual I Hate Robert Altman Film Festival. We’ve got two movies on the bill or two plays, depending on how good a job Altman did adapting them to film, Streamers and Secret Honor. If you haven’t seen either and won’t get to them by tomorrow night, don’t worry. Ante up anyway, because I have a feeling the discussion’s going to focus on Altman’s overall work as a director more than on those two specific films.
You can prepare by reading this review of Mitchell Zuckoff’s Robert Altman: The Oral Biography in the New York Review of Books.
Yeah, I hate homework too.
Consider this work for extra credit then.
Ebert’s review of Secret Honor.
Here’s Matthew Modine, one of the stars of Streamers, talking about what he learned from working with Altman.
Here’s Altman himself talking about casting his films:
And if you want to spoil it for yourself, here’s Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon challenging his sainted mother’s ghost at the end of Secret Honor:
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