Fraud director. Put a dozen actors together and let them improvise
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SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(October 22, 2012 02:46 AM)
'That Cold Day In The Park' is not considered poor from what I have read. Actually, his best regarded work is from the mid 70's. Maybe that is before he became too self-absorbed.
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franzkabuki — 13 years ago(October 22, 2012 03:23 AM)
That Cold Day In The Park is too little seen to have much of any reputation to speak of, but FWIW, its Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating is 20%. In other words, awful. And Im quite sure Altman was at all times just about equally "self absorbed" (theres little sign of any compromise in any of his films), but youre right inasmuch as he seems to have taken himself a bit too seriously as this auteurist artist around the time he made the Bergman-styled abomination called Quintet, for instance. If anything, he was arguably less self absorbed though in the Eighties, his weakest period, because he didnt have the necessary budgets to satisfy all his flights of fancy.
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SimplemindedSociety — 13 years ago(October 22, 2012 10:47 AM)
'That Cold Day In The Park is too little seen to have much of any reputation to speak of, but FWIW, its Rotten Tomatoes'
Look through some of the film review books before Rotten Tomatotes and the internet was our source of info