It's the coolest thing ever! Garrison Kellior is doing a PHC movie, and he's letting Robert Altman direct. With everyone to John C. Reilly (!) to Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep (!!) to Lily Tomlin (!!!) to Lindsay Lohan (?) — a cast so good, Woody Harrelson is a footnote. I mean, check it out:

The morning's work consisted of a long tracking shot that began below the stage with Maya Rudolph, who is an actress from "Saturday Night Live" and several months pregnant, feigning having her baby to get Mr. Keillor out of his dressing room and up to the stage.

So is that part of the film, or just how Robert Altman ensures his actors show up on time? Who cares!

In one of five takes, Mr. Keillor failed to remove the towels from his shoulders that protected his suit while makeup was applied. The curtain rose and Ms. Rudolph, reacting instinctively as a live television performer might, dashed out and ripped them from his shoulders.

It was a perfect Altman moment, all played out in front of an audience of 600 extras.

Mr. Altman all but hugged himself at the miscue as he watched the three monitors just off stage. It would be built into subsequent takes.

Robert Altman isn't the only one who's almost hugging himself.

Movie Alert: "The Return," a Russian film from 2003. Kind of a throwback to old European moody psychological thrillers but simply done and thought provoking, GUY

Posted by  Anonymous @ 7:06 PM

 

Another movie to watch for is "The Rum Diary," based on the Hunter Thompson novel. Director Bruce Robinson and starring Johnny Depp,

ORSON WELLLS

Posted by  Anonymous @ 9:25 PM

 

I suggest another I think you'd like, the argintinian "The Lost Embrace" saw it for free at the Tower, anyway strangely honest coming of age story

sam

Posted by  Anonymous @ 1:24 AM

 

Heres another: "Richard III" with Ian McKellen. A TERRIFIC cast (Nigel Hawthorne, Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent among others although Sir Ian is all the movie really needs) which is actually overshadowed by GREAT set design. HIGHLY recommended. Tony B.

Posted by  Anonymous @ 2:13 PM

 

The insurance company made the producers hire a substitute director (Paul Anderson was chosen) to be in the bullpen because Altman is 80 years old.
H. Art Ford

Posted by  Anonymous @ 11:15 PM

 

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