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| Robert Altman |
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As hit and miss as top rank directors get. But when he hits, he hits big,
and this career is one of virtually incomparable range, observation,
and experimentality. Not even Coppola made as many great movies in the
1970s, interspersed though they are with such stubbornly unorthodox
misfires. His masterpieces (especially McCabe And Mrs. Miller, The
Long Goodbye, Nashville) add up – like Godard's – to exponentially more
than the sum of their parts, their trademark overlapping dialogue and
loose composition initially disorienting but unmistakable. So is his
almost reckless exposure of actors, who are not the complete pawns of a
cruel Kubrick, but like little marionettes dangling perilously, but
playfully, from Altman's fingers.
Tim Robey
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