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R.I.P. Robert Altman
 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-21 12:40 [#02005623]
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he died. :(


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-11-21 12:42 [#02005628]
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Well I'm glad you made the thread an not Ezkerraldean going
"I don't know who this guy is but fuck me he be dead"


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2006-11-21 12:45 [#02005632]
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Oh crap.

Short cuts was absolutely brilliant. Maybe ill watch it
again to honor the guy.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-11-21 12:45 [#02005633]
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rip

Only at the mention of his name and a search on IMDB do I
realise how many of his films I've actually seen...


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-21 12:47 [#02005637]
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the mash guy? aw.

[doggie_blush, you make me laugh!]


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-11-21 14:21 [#02005754]
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RIP Robert Altman. I remember the first time me and Bob met
- it was at his Château in the south of France back in the
late 70s. We were out back playing frisbee with him and Mike
when a large flying disc floated into view from further
along the valley.

"What the hell is that, Bob?" I cried.

He didn't say a word. He didn't have to.

Great guy.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-21 14:37 [#02005777]
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:(


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-21 14:42 [#02005786]
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Huh, I listened to CBC radio interview with him just a month
ago, he was a really entertaining and interesting talker and
talked about his weird directorial methods, cool guy. RIP.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-11-21 15:35 [#02005850]
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Just goes to show - one month you're alive, the next month
you're dead!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-21 16:35 [#02005888]
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are you saying he'll be back after a month, Paul?

Zombie Altman (for one month, mind).


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2006-11-21 17:19 [#02005919]
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Well shit, I know he was old but I still feel awful, he was
one of my very favourite directors.


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2006-11-21 17:22 [#02005920]
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My first and most likely last emoticon goes to the death of
this great film maker.

:(


I think I will do my last class speech (as an eulogy) about
him instead of an invective filled rant praising my
antisocial-ism and hatred of mankind.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-21 17:22 [#02005921]
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while making his last film (as far as I know) "A Home
Prairie Companion", Paul Thomas Anderson was on standby all
of the time to replace Altman if he had been incapacitated.

apparently he hadn't been in good health.

doesn't make it less sad, ofcourse.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-21 18:06 [#02005934]
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They were constantly discussing death and mortality in that
interview I heard. I tuned in halfway through and now I
really wish I'd caught the lead-up, I didn't realize the
context. He seemed really cavalier about it.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-21 18:06 [#02005935]
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well, he was still alive at the time.







or was he?


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-21 18:08 [#02005938]
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What I mean is, I wonder how they got to talking about that
subject. You don't just ask a person ''so like how do you
feel about dying?'' for no reason out of the blue.

And lol I make a lot of typos and delete stuff a lot lol


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-21 18:10 [#02005942]
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Although I know now, because he was dying, evidently.
Because he's dead now. I just didn't know that then.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-21 18:14 [#02005948]
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I'm sorry, I meant he perhaps was cavalier because he wasn't
dead yet.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-11-21 18:21 [#02005958]
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He has a time-share life now. One month he's a corpse in the
ground, the next month he's a corpse OUT of the ground -
he'll be embarking on a new career playing zombies in future
Return of the Living Dead features, and a damn fine zombie
he'll make.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-21 18:25 [#02005961]
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He was so cool and open about it that I didn't even register
that maybe he could have been talking about himself. But
then I greatly fear the reaper and would have started crying
if I was in that situation and then Eleanor Waktel would
have had to hold me.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2006-11-21 18:44 [#02005971]
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rip

im seeing his latest film a prairie home companion this
thursday. he's done many awesome films, some among my favs.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-11-22 19:53 [#02006437]
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I've seen it and, sadly, I didn't like it that much. and I
really like the radioshow "A Prairie Home Companion" and
Garrison Keillor.


 


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