The cup of urine totally fits in with a bleak film noir filmed by Polanski.ġ0.

That garden in the image is on the grounds of the Filoli Estate in Woodside, California, not far from where I grew up.ĩ. I had a white Plymouth Valiant when my wife and I lived in San Francisco.Ħ. That's what I tell my would-be filmmakers in Film Club. Really enjoyed your comments about writing. This is a great book, and I enjoyed your observations here.Ģ. I would have liked to have seen Biskind balance out his portrait with consideraton of Altman's later successes such as The Player (1992). And finally, there was the layered soundtrack with overlapping dialogue.' Altman was older than many of the other major directors, and his output was often not that successful commercially, but he persevered in part because his movies were often so cheaply made. ( The New York Times noted that it was `the first American movie openly to ridicule belief in God.') There was the improvisation, the ensemble acting, the self-consciousness that drew attention to the filmmaking, the loose-knit narratives that dispensed with the traditional beginning, middle, and end, where the energy of the individual sequences carried the piece. He characterizes Robert Altman's M*A*S*H as the work of an auteur: 'There were the themes, the `anti-s': militarism, clericalism, authoritarianism.

5) At times, Biskind comes up with a refreshingly exact description of a director's style.

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