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Robert Altman Turns On His Camera [Vhs Or Beta?]
Posted on August 29, 2008
Ed. note: It's time for another installment of VHS Or Beta? , where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the sounds of two mid-'70s movies by famed director Robert Altman, California Split and Thieves Like Us:Film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum contributed an essay to Stop Smiling (#35: The Gambling Issue), that connects the sound design in Robert Altman's underappreciated 1974 film California Split to that of group-improvised jazz. The movie was the first to use an eight-tra...
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