Sunday, February 18, 2007
TINSELTOWN
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Robert Altman's
This is a great movie. It not only exposes the hypocrisy of Hollywood; its shallowness, its banality (are they all the same thing? No).
It also revels in these things and flaunts them. It gets right down in the dirt and wallows in it.
Altman surely knows whereof he films. He is a maverick in a conformist town and he has seen both ends of the stick.
As it turns out, both ends are probably shitty.
Tim Robbins is totally watchable as the Player.
He is surrounded by a depth of walkon stars and cameos that are breathtaking. This could be a devastating trick to try in a film but somehow Altman makes all the star watching work.
We are drawn into the same empty game that all the people in the story are playing.
In the end, we are all players raving over the other players.
There is a great film within a film at the end. And a really neat ending that turns us on our heads once again.
I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.
Great movie.
This film will bear repetition.
Labels: best films, films
