talkingaesthetics: Contrast and Comparison. Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson. Just watched a

talkingaesthetics:

Contrast and Comparison. Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson. Just watched a great doc on the former titled simply ‘Altman’. The minute I saw footage of Shortcuts finale I realized I had to do a C&C on these two masters. PTA is indebted to Altman in so many ways. I recommend checking all these flicks in pairs to check the earmarks PTA’s drawing from. PTA is following Altman’s film oeuvre like a roadmap of what to try next. Pretty excited to see what he’ll draw from next. Already they’ve both spent time deconstructing Western and Noir tropes, dabbling at and failing to break into the mainstream crowd pleasing and lastly fine tuning the art of ensemble filmmaking. They don’t get much better than these two.