Archive for tag: Robert Altman

“Writin’ it down kinda makes me feel better”: Robert Altman’s “Nashville”

2 October, 2008 (00:03) | Essays, Film Reviews, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News no. 43, September 1975]
Nashville is a film with a mirror in it. The mirror is Robert DoQui’s face; specifically, his face at that moment when Jeff Goldblum takes the cap off the saltshaker at the airport lunch counter, pours the salt into his left hand, lifts the left hand and [...]

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Altman and Coppola in the Seventies: Power and the People

29 September, 2008 (00:18) | Directors, Essays, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow

[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Bob Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on 11/26/2005, [...]

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