Film Series

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The Films of Robert Altman (Summer 2007)

English 199/Special Studies
Owen 103, Friday nights
Professor Jon Lewis, jlewis@oregonstate.edu

The great American film director Robert Altman died on November 20, 2006 prompting the sardonic website Fark.com to proclaim: “Director Robert Altman dead. Funeral expected to be star-studded, rambling, plotless.” This class will look back on Altman’s considerable career beginning with his first important feature MASH (a project for which he was the last possible resort behind fourteen other directors – a film that won for the director the top prize at Cannes in 1970 and overnight made him a key figure in the so-called auteur renaissance), the series of groundbreaking films he made in the 1970s, his triumphant “comeback” in 1992 with industry parody The Player, and his later work that served only to cement his place in the auteur pantheon.

June 29: Week 1: MASH (1970)
July 6: Week 2: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
July 13: Week 3: The Long Goodbye (1973)
July 20: Week 4: Thieves like Us (1974)
July 27: Week 5: Nashville (1975)
August 3: Week 6: The Player (1992)
August 10: Week 7: Short Cuts (1993)
August 17: Week 8: Gosford Park (2001)

Assigned reading:
David Thompson (ed.), Altman on Altman