Friday, January 13, 2006

HE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT TO LAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS: Director Robert Altman (7 nominations, 0 wins) will, at last, be receiving an honorary Oscar this year.

Altman's work combines two seemingingly disparate traits -- a deeply naturalistic, unforced shooting style which allowed for overlapping dialogue and action occurring all over the frame, but with exceptional control over the narrative itself, allowing films like Nashville and Short Cuts to have 20+ characters of equal significance, all colliding over each other's lives.

If he had only made those two films, dayenu. But M*A*S*H? The Player? Gosford Park? "Tanner '88"? A worthy honor.

Just as long as they don't harp on Popeye too much.

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