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by Robert Altman, Greg Carson
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Actor: Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Marcel Bozzuffi, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah YorkDirector: Greg Carson, Robert Altman
Brand: Images
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: A Must-Have for Any Horror Collection
Summary: 5 Stars
I collect horror films and have several hundred in my collection. It may be an ill-advised hobby, but it has its satisfactions. Perhaps I watched too much Night Gallery and Twilight Zone as a kid and I was imprinted with a love for the macabre.
This movie is superb. I'm surprised it does not have vast notoriety; it certainly deserves that. It is extremely weird and dreamy and it is an artistic masterpiece on several levels. It is visually beautiful throughout, and the performances are first-rate. Ms. York is astonishingly convincing. My wife and I had to pause this movie about a half dozen times to catch our breath from the tension. The music and audio effects are the gold-standard for a horror movie (which I believe was composed by John Williams; this movie has major talent from top to bottom).
I enjoyed the movie "Nashville" (another Altman film) and now having watched this I am forever a Robert Altman fan. I'm going to buy or rent all his other films and examine them closely. This guy is obviously a certified genius, and I realize I've been missing out on someone of the magniutude of Stanley Kubrick, my favortie director. In fact, as I was watching this I kept thinking of "The Shining"; the fear, curiosity, and dread I felt during this film were very similar to what I felt during "The Shining." This movie couldn't be more different from "Nashville," which yet again brings to mind Kubrick, whose films were all so different from one another. I love virtuosity in any discipline--and I feel it is best displayed in diversity. These gentlemen definitely show diversity in their works.
I don't want to comment on too many particular events or aspects of this movie because the "unknown" progressions will be important for you. Suffice it to say that if you enjoy horror or thriller films, this will be one of your favorites. I should clarify one issue: is this movie supernatural horror or psychological horror? Some folks prefer one type and shun the other. Answer: both groups will be very pleased, and the distinction is all but moot by the end of this movie where reality is not quite ascertainable throughout.
This is easily in the top ten of my favorites in my voluminous collection. It gets 100 points out of a possible 100. Others in the same league: "The Legend of Hell House" ( w/Roddy McDowell); "The Haunting" (the 1964 B&W original); "Burnt Offerings" (w/ Karen Black); "The Shining"; "The Innocents"; "Death Bed--the Bed That Eats" (really--another obscure gem); "The Changeling" (w/ George C. Scott); "Phantasm".
Whenever I discover such an awesome film as this--which has been around for 35 years!!--it brings to mind the question: what other masterpieces are there out there which I have yet to discover?? The search continues for more ultimate films....
Summary of Images
Cathryn (Susannah York) has secluded herself in a remote country home where she hopes to finish writing a children's book. It is in this country house that Cathryn will begin to feel a shift in her life. Reality begins to break down for her as the men in her life become more oppressive. A psychotic break finds Cathryn attempting to kill all these men although some may already be dead.System Requirements:Starring: Susannah York Cathryn Harrison Rene Auberjonois Marcel Bozzufi Hugh Millais Directed By: Robert Altman Running Time: 101 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616895332 Manufacturer No: M101797Effectively a "lost film" soon after its original release, this dreamlike yet razor-sharp movie from the amazing early-'70s arc of Robert Altman's career was among the most mesmerizingly beautiful color films ever made. Where on this planet did Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond find such colors, such an awesome fairy-tale landscape? (Ireland, as it happens.) Even more extraordinary was the inside/outside landscape of the heroine's consciousness: this is a movie in which madness is inseparable from imagination. Susannah York gives a brave, supernally freaky performance as a married woman who may be an adulteress, may only be fantasizing about it, may be pregnant, may merely be giving birth to a world. René Auberjonois, Hugh Millais (McCabe and Mrs. Miller's fur-clad assassin), and Marcel Bozzufi play the men in her life, some of whom may be dead, some of whom are going to be. They all exchange names at various times as Cathryn meets herself coming and going, in search of unicorns. --Richard T. Jameson
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