MM22: Prisoners of Life - Altman in the 90’s feat. Andrew Hudson & Taylor
Added 2024-05-29 11:00:09 +0000 UTCThis week on Movie Mindset we return to the genius of Robert Altman. Where last we left our hero he was examining the American character through the lens of a whorehouse and the city of Nashville, TN. For this episode. Will and Hesse are joined by our friends Andrew Hudson (@intellegint) and Taylor (@Tupacdurex) to discuss two Altman films about Los Angeles in the 90s: The Player and Short Cuts. In the The Player, Altman skewers the movie business in a meta satire about a studio executive who gets away with murder, and then in Short Cuts, adapts the work of Raymond Carver to devastating effect with one of the best casts ever assembled. Check out @tupacdurex’s Movie Twitch Stream: twitch.tv/bobygamesdotcom
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Fuck you guys for Short Cuts. I hope you make it funny. Somehow....
Equality State Of Mind
2024-12-07 00:31:54 +0000 UTCHesse is the most stoned a podcast host has ever been in this ep
Robby Gross
2024-06-09 18:18:41 +0000 UTCLoved this thanks guys. Learned about altman from last season on movie mindset will check out.
Kevin Spicer
2024-06-07 20:33:36 +0000 UTCOnly two of the stories were directly taken from Carver’s writing, so much water so close to home and a small good thing, but Altman was a huge fan and he totally captures the spirit of Carver’s work perfectly. Also popeye is one of my all time favorite movies, a movie that has me beaming for the full 2 hours
noah m koebler
2024-06-07 14:01:05 +0000 UTCWhat are the chances of a Neil Breen episode?
Michael Naatjes
2024-06-04 06:24:08 +0000 UTCShort Cuts is not streaming anywhere right now. Fortunately I saw the theatrical releases of both films. I didn’t know shit about directors back then, but recognized these films were very special and my love affair with Robert Altman began.
JASON
2024-06-04 02:27:56 +0000 UTCI am begging someone to please teach Hesse an adjective other than “crazy”
James Possley
2024-06-04 00:01:14 +0000 UTC1:36:00 grill pill
James Kellis
2024-06-03 15:05:35 +0000 UTCAt the funeral scene in The Player, the screenwriter friend who delivers the eulogy is wearing the exact same outfit as Griffin's murder victim. As if the movie sees these unduly confident, untalented writers as clones, "breeding" too, like the clueless executives.
Daniel Fitzgerald
2024-06-02 12:57:48 +0000 UTC“I don’t know you” sings the jazz singer before she finds Zoe in the garage…
Steve L Busch
2024-06-01 04:02:32 +0000 UTCOne of my all time favourite horror movies, if indeed that's what it is.
Jason Matthews
2024-06-01 03:59:10 +0000 UTCi didn't realize the player was by Michael Tolkin - you guys gotta do The Rapture, that movie is insane
ffffffff
2024-06-01 02:04:55 +0000 UTChonestly thought it was Assigned Lawyer at Birth
Nick Swartz
2024-05-31 17:01:37 +0000 UTCI saw an interview with buck henry on letterman Where he brought up that the graduate 2 was an actual pitch he received
SkinnyTonySoprano
2024-05-31 14:32:40 +0000 UTCPlease! Next year drag Felix on and review Gosford Park
Bugger Off
2024-05-31 14:05:48 +0000 UTCI'm still wating for the Gosford Park ep. feat Felix.
Johan Hellis Timmås
2024-05-31 08:02:21 +0000 UTCJust search for it on archive.org
Broadway Joe
2024-05-31 02:49:05 +0000 UTCIt's time to scrap the whole project imo
buttface
2024-05-30 23:52:35 +0000 UTCRaymond Carver is a giant.
Sam Schick
2024-05-30 19:45:58 +0000 UTCThe scene in The Player where Griffin goes into the police station and assumes Whoopi Goldberg wants to meet in her office and she tells him to sit down in front of everyone reminded me so much of the scene in McCabe and Mrs Miller where Beatty goes to talk business with Butler and tries to meet in the back room for privacy but Butler tells him to sit down and talk in front of all of his men. Almost seemed like a callback or something
Seth
2024-05-30 19:14:48 +0000 UTCCarver is due a little more credit for Short Cuts here, but I’ve always appreciated Altman as a brilliant orchestrator of some very heavy material in a way that makes it sing.
snafujesus
2024-05-30 16:15:15 +0000 UTCGreat story. Carver was great. The dead woman on the fishing trip is from Carver's So Much Water So Close to Home. A chilling story.
VVulpes
2024-05-30 16:00:18 +0000 UTCI saw “The Player” when it was first released. I was in college and a textbook for my Chicano film class featured a scene from The Player on the cover. The villain getting away with it was a mind-blowing concept at the time. I remember enjoying “Short Cuts” (as a Bay Area cat, I HAD to support Huey Lewis’s acting debut), but I never went down an Altman rabbit hole. Thanks for the inspiration and the japes. ✌🏽
Puet
2024-05-30 15:02:48 +0000 UTCI always wondered if Jack Black's dog kicking Motorcycle Cop character in Anchorman was meant to be a kind of homage to Short Cuts.
Chris Brandon
2024-05-30 14:57:16 +0000 UTCJust let Menaker talk movies. Can’t listen to Hesse and the other jokers just summarize scenes and say lines from the movie we just watched.
Mac
2024-05-30 13:03:36 +0000 UTCI think I have sat down and watched Altman's Popeye at least 25 times in my life. It's time for number 26... Also a second watch of The Player
Andrew E Houston
2024-05-30 10:12:52 +0000 UTCOne of my regulars worked with Altman starting with 1987’s “Beyond Therapy” and until he left the industry in the early 00s. He was a poster designer and did some amazing work, including one of the original Hellraiser posters. Altman smoked him out in his trailer when they first met to discuss poster ideas and said “Do you even know what this picture is about? …. Because I sure as fuck don’t and I guess we’re going to figure it out.” Absolute legend.
tropical dandy
2024-05-30 06:40:47 +0000 UTCMy appreciation for Altman has only grown with age.
Last Years Man
2024-05-30 05:21:43 +0000 UTCNot sure if Hesse was joking about the Fred Ward fishing trip being its own movie. I’m not very smart. But that movie is called Jindabyne.
Dylan
2024-05-30 04:10:24 +0000 UTCI can only find Short Cuts in Czech dub on YouTube with no english
Marc Silverstein
2024-05-29 23:18:52 +0000 UTC(Though "Keep It Going!" is amazing no matter what.)
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-05-29 22:47:55 +0000 UTCI like Nashville... but he should have hired singers and taught them to act, rather than picking his favorite actors and failing to get them to sing well. It tarnishes the whole film.
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-05-29 22:47:27 +0000 UTCOh man Three Women and Brewster wd be so so so tight
George Lochinski
2024-05-29 22:12:51 +0000 UTCTim robbins is such a babe
Kirstwb
2024-05-29 18:14:17 +0000 UTCbeen waiting for this short cuts ep for years and years
jake.durazno
2024-05-29 18:12:39 +0000 UTCthe dying kid and the cake is a Raymond Carver short story called A Small, Good Thing and its haunted me ever since AP lit in high school
instain_mother
2024-05-29 17:19:18 +0000 UTCNeed some love for California Split
Rory Schreiber
2024-05-29 16:53:41 +0000 UTCEverytime I experience an earthquake here in Los Angeles, it makes me want to get drunk, get under a doorway with Lily Tomlin, and laugh like Tom Waits.
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-05-29 16:42:18 +0000 UTCBaptized with genitalia, you are blessed
Christian Johnson
2024-05-29 15:57:23 +0000 UTCjulianne moore popping off while trying to dry her pants was the first time I saw nudity in a movie. Thanks robert
Vic
2024-05-29 15:33:45 +0000 UTCTim Kaine and Josh Hawley went there too, and they're a lot more representative
Michael S. Judge
2024-05-29 13:30:53 +0000 UTCI went to the same militant right-wing Jesuit high school as Robert Altman, and anybody who comes out of there liking human beings as much as he apparently did must've been smocking on the loundest cusch blount
Michael S. Judge
2024-05-29 13:02:57 +0000 UTCSkoal has never looked so sexy.
THEKILLERWHALE
2024-05-29 12:31:53 +0000 UTCCan't forget about the Lori Singer skinny dipping scene in "Short Cuts" 🥵
Christian Johnson
2024-05-29 11:55:45 +0000 UTCalso reccommended: Kansas City, his 3rd 90s masterpiece!
JD
2024-05-29 11:52:23 +0000 UTCSweet
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