Altman Honored in Manhattan
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
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Just as star-studded as a Robert Altman film was the ensemble that came together Tuesday to pay tribute to the late director, whose films often read like a who's-who of seasoned talent.
"There's a hilarious new movie in preproduction up in heaven," Tim Robbins, who starred in Altman's landmark film industry satire, "The Player," as well as in "Short Cuts" and "Ready to Wear," said during a public memorial held at the Majestic Theater in Manhattan.
"He's watching the people on stage, yes, but there are other cameras lurking around the theater today [examining] the subplots, the subterfuge, the silliness, the whispered comments, the backstage preening."
All of which sounds like fodder for the iconic filmmaker who, as New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote shortly after Altman died Nov. 20 frm complications of cancer, "thrived on the shapelessness and confusion of experience" and made his films "buzz frm the dangerous thrill of collaboration." |
