Short Cuts (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
Short Cuts raises the roof on America.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 3 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2016
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Lili Taylor, Annie Ross, Tom Waits & Lily Tomlin | |
Performer: | Frances McDormand, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis, Lyle Lovett, Peter Gallagher, Jarrett Lennon, Margery Bond, Robert DoQui, Darnell Williams, Michael Beach, Charles Rocket & Bruce Davison | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Edited by | Geraldine Peroni | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Altman | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Story by | Raymond Carver | |
Cameo: | Alex Trebek | |
Produced by | Cary Brokaw | |
Director of Photography: | Walt Lloyd | |
Executive Production by | Scott Bushnell |
Entertainment Reviews:
Worth the buy for one scene: watching a young Robert Downey, Jr. elbow-punch a couch.
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ChaseWhale.com
A movie of Carver's work needed to show this process whereby simple acts and objects are also abstractions. Altman has shown it...
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 4/5 --
Performances are low key but accomplished, comedy and tragedy are delicately balanced and the whole thing has the feel of a sprawling but very absorbing soap.
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Film4
It's a funny/scary vision, with a manic edge -- which is why, when you come down from the high of the filmmaking, you may be left with the taste of ashes in your mouth. Altman's artistry can make you happy even when his art offers cold comfort.
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Newsweek
5 stars out of 5 -- SHORT CUTS paints a lonely picture of modern Los Angeles, capturing the idiosyncrasies of human behavior amid the uncertainty of everyday existence.
Empire
...Altman is fascinated by the accidental nature of life....He likes the messiness and coincidence of real life, where you can do your best, and some days it's just not good enough...
Chicago Sun-Times
From the exhilarating opening, you know Altman's epic 'adaptation' of eight stories and a poem by Raymond Carver is going to be special.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a jumping-off point, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several couples--a philandering cop and his masochistic spouse (Tim Robbins and Madeline Stowe); a helicopter pilot who gets revenge on his ex by trashing her house (Peter Gallagher and Frances McDormand); a man and woman whose perfect life falls apart when they lose their son in a hit-and-run accident (Bruce Davison and Andie MacDowell); a pool cleaner who listens in mounting frustration to his wife performing phone sex each day while tending her brood of children (Chris Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh); a wealthy couple who are haunted by an incident from the past (Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore); an aging jazz singer and her suicidal daughter (Annie Ross and Lori Singer); an alcoholic limo driver and his waitress wife (Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin)--Altman reveals their common threads of family dysfunction and marital discord in the unforgiving glare of the Southern California sunlight. The result is a sweeping motion picture that also stands as an important sociological artifact of late 20th century Los Angeles life.
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