Was Lola Montes an influence on Brewster McCloud?
Was Lola Montes an influence on Robert Altman's film Brewster McCloud?
shareI read a couple of book of interviews with Altman and don't remember him saying that, but having just seen "Lola Montès" for the first time, I can totally see where you're coming from.
"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)
No idea, but I would say the circus parts influenced Luhrman for his "Moulin Rouge".
shareWhat are you guys talking about? I read altman on altman,a book in wich he specifically talks of ALL HIS PROJECTS one after another ona a serious length and basically he says that whenever he is inspired by something it works on a very inconscious way so if he was we'll never know,and he never knew
find that book,is what any book about any director should be
I have read that book, I actually took a whole class on Altman in college, taught by his friend and collaborator Allan Nicholls.
And no need to be rude, the OP was just asking a question.
"The fundamental things apply, as time goes by."
he was really something,wasn't he?Gosh I'm mesmerized by altman And I wished so bad I met him.Like it's the actual dead person I wish I met just to hear him talk,not just to be starstruck.Him and jack warner.
altman on altman I guess it's called, I don't know I'm Italian a nd I read It In Italian, and it was "altman su altman"
I wasn't being rude! I mean,sorry if I were!
If You like good books about (good) movie people (and boy are there rare) I suggest you just other 2 :one it's peter bogdanovich tome"who the devil made it?" which I gave my dad and haven't seen since, and the other is the kinda rare too finda marlene dietrich dictionary...it's such a thrill,that one...basically marlene for each letter says what ' s her "point of view" about that argument.so much fun.what a lady
i remember "a like aries:people of this sign like to move furniture"
LOL :D:DD
stay away by "conversations with billy wilder" by cameron crowe.the question crowe does are gossipy at his best, and insist on talking even on defintely-flawed ones ,which is a pain both for us and def for billy!
Sorry, it's hard to tell someone's "tone" over the internet. Altman is one of my favorite directors; he symbolizes American Independent Cinema like only a few others (Cassavetes, Fuller, and his disciple Paul Thomas Anderson).
"The fundamental things apply, as time goes by."
I wouldn't put cassevetes anything near altman, altman was and indipendent director BUT alan ladd jr was working at fox right?and he was his steady producer for a long time,until he was fired,basically :D ehehe
cassevetes was kinda of an "early mumble core" very new york oriented...his first true "narratively-oriented" movie was gloria...but altman movies were never as "directors'director" ones,if you know what I mean
the only similarity is their casting their close ones.
I loved what dennis hopper said about altman "we didn't do a good movie together,but man..I saw on that set people ready to be killed for him..I never saw such commitment from a crew for a director"
http://www.avclub.com/articles/random-roles-dennis-hopper,2549/
(random roles interviews on the av club are probably the most satisying interviews one can find on the net as of now)
I love when I know a man I don't know was a good man :D
Of course paul thomas anderson (who wrote the introduction of "altman on altman") is his disciple as you said ... but I see altman ,technically speaking, in so many other directors...Im not talking of big crews, but I'm talking of cameras who never stand stills, zoom...as I said before...maybe it's just something inconscious ...as Other directors influence was for robert
(But he talks about ophuls influence in a very conscious way)
another technically amazing director whose movies were rarely good as they should have is bob rafelson.same of lumet.and I'd say alan parker.It's like everyone in the 70's was incredibly inspired, was at his best...and then puf!
Like lately I watched a movie called that's the way of the world by some guy named "sig shore" and man,was that movie well done!some incredibely powerful scenes! and where's this guy now? I just love that period and those movies were probably (i just say probably) the very last one to have entered in the olympus of classic movies.I can't think of a movie after 79 who will be studied in books.
Altman was apparently unhappy about "Three Women" being criticized as too obviously influenced by "Persona" and after that refused to acknowledge any influences on his work.
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