hooray. he was a cunt. gosford park was tedious. m*a*s*h crass. the player a dull in-joke. short cuts a rambling mess

wadya expect from a pot head

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awww. my genres teacher will be sad
"nashville" was one of the hardest movies i ever had to sit through, but i liked "the player"

and, here, i thought you wanted to fuck him.

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when that bitch breathes, the air comes out crooked.

nothing needs to be said about popeye or pret-a-porter. i'd like to see the delinquents tho

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im sort of sad actually. i loved the player, and short cuts.

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Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
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"No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have," Altman said while accepting the award. "I'm very fortunate in my career. I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition."

Altman had one of the most distinctive styles among modern filmmakers. He often employed huge ensemble casts, encouraged improvisation and overlapping dialogue and filmed scenes in long tracking shots that would flit from character to character.

Perpetually in and out of favor with audiences and critics, Altman worked ceaselessly since his anti-war black comedy "M-A-S-H" established his reputation in 1970, but he would go for years at a time directing obscure movies before roaring back with a hit.

After a string of commercial duds including "The Gingerbread Man" in 1998, "Cookie's Fortune" in 1999 and "Dr. T & the Women" in 2000, Altman took his all-American cynicism to Britain for 2001's "Gosford Park."

A combination murder-mystery and class-war satire set among snobbish socialites and their servants on an English estate in the 1930s, "Gosford Park" was Altman's biggest box-office success since "M-A-S-H."

Besides best-director, "Gosford Park" earned six other Oscar nominations, including best picture and best supporting actress for both Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith. It won the original-screenplay Oscar, and Altman took the best-director prize at the Golden Globes for "Gosford Park."

Altman's other best-director Oscar nominations came for "M-A-S-H," the country-music saga "Nashville" from 1975, the movie-business satire "The Player" from 1992 and the ensemble character study "Short Cuts" from 1993. He also earned a best-picture nomination as producer of "Nashville."

No director ever got more best-director nominations without winning a regular Oscar, though four other men -- Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Clarence Brown and King Vidor -- tied with Altman at five.

He often took on Hollywood genres with a revisionist's eye, de-romanticizing the Western hero in 1971's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and 1976's "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson," the film-noir gumshoe in 1973's "The Long Goodbye" and outlaw gangsters in "Thieves Like Us."

"M-A-S-H" was Altman's first big success after years of directing television, commercials, industrial films and generally unremarkable feature films. The film starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould was set during the Korean War but was Altman's thinly veiled attack on U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

"That was my intention entirely. If you look at that film, there's no mention of what war it is," Altman said in an Associated Press interview in 2001, adding that the studio made him put a disclaimer at the beginning to identify the setting as Korea.

"Our mandate was bad taste. If anybody had a joke in the worst taste, it had a better chance of getting into the film, because nothing was in worse taste than that war itself," Altman said.

The film spawned the long-running TV sitcom starring Alan Alda, a show Altman would refer to with distaste as "that series." Unlike the social message of the film, the series was prompted by greed, Altman said.

"They made millions and millions of dollars by bringing an Asian war into Americans' homes every Sunday night," Altman said in 2001. "I thought that was the worst taste."

Altman never minced words about reproaching Hollywood. After the September 11 attacks, he said Hollywood served as a source of inspiration for the terrorists by making violent action movies that amounted to training films for such attacks.

"Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie," Altman said.

it's sad his last movie co-starred lindsay lohan

well, madeleine stowe

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well say what you will about his movies

the guy definitely made an impact on american cinema.

he will be missed.

RIP

LOVED short cuts too. JJL as the at home mom/phone sex operator? julianne moore's full frontal? lily tomlin and tom waits as the couple that lived in the trailer park? oh i loved that film.

RIP Mister Altman.

how tedious of you all

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

how tedious of you, sir!

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
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do you bite you thumb at me ma'am?

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

im sippin tea and giving you the V

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
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yes, but are you sipping tea at me?


oh poo. i love altman. where's someone to call me a cunt

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

oh, sometimes i really love you kesh.

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except i hate you.

oh great. heres the tanker to tell us that altmans a cunter

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
Grateful Dead

I DON'T APPROVE. Gosh!

I love many of his films. And even the misfires are more interesting than most product. I love prolific directors where you have to wade through their films to find the good, the bad, the indifferent. Like Woody Allen.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

YOURE A BLOODY BITCH AND I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOU ANYMORE.

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except i hate you.

POT KETTLE MUCH, BITCHITA??

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in".
Grateful Dead