I got your note about this post a while ago. I saw both films and a few of Altman's earlier films. I'm trying to process those films and organize my thoughts before I read your specific comments about the films. Sorry, I didn't respond sooner Hopefully, I'll read your analysis soon.
Great post! I keep coming back to McCabe & Mrs. Miller, both on its own merits, and also as part of different projects. For a class I did on film noir, as well as a film club series I organized for friends, I talked about the noirish overtones of the film. For an upcoming class and film club on Westerns, I’ll be discussing it as a modern, revisionist Western. Your post really nails what’s special about the film.
I’ve always thought that Dylan’s “Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts” could make a good movie. Maybe not the Old, Weird West (when were jackhammers invented?), but close enough.
And, re: the concept of worldbuilding, it's a movie that just presents a community of characters in the background, letting the viewer take it in without ever really explaining things.
Images for me is sabotaged by the decision to shoot at 60fps, which robs it of filmic magic. love the children's story tho. Julie Christie and Altman have bit parts in Robert Wyatt's biography, I wasn't expecting that but she's on the 2nd Matching Mole LP.
Brilliant work - love the detail in the appendix as well!
Thanks so much.
Hi Robert,
I got your note about this post a while ago. I saw both films and a few of Altman's earlier films. I'm trying to process those films and organize my thoughts before I read your specific comments about the films. Sorry, I didn't respond sooner Hopefully, I'll read your analysis soon.
Another great post. We have done Images as a HookWatch and it's a solid gothic movie more than a horror film.
Great post! I keep coming back to McCabe & Mrs. Miller, both on its own merits, and also as part of different projects. For a class I did on film noir, as well as a film club series I organized for friends, I talked about the noirish overtones of the film. For an upcoming class and film club on Westerns, I’ll be discussing it as a modern, revisionist Western. Your post really nails what’s special about the film.
I’ve always thought that Dylan’s “Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts” could make a good movie. Maybe not the Old, Weird West (when were jackhammers invented?), but close enough.
Yes.
And, re: the concept of worldbuilding, it's a movie that just presents a community of characters in the background, letting the viewer take it in without ever really explaining things.
Images for me is sabotaged by the decision to shoot at 60fps, which robs it of filmic magic. love the children's story tho. Julie Christie and Altman have bit parts in Robert Wyatt's biography, I wasn't expecting that but she's on the 2nd Matching Mole LP.