Nashville (1975) | Review by Pauline Kael
"Nashville" offers an elated cinematic adventure, mixing humor and music into a deep exploration of American culture, sans overwhelming the viewer.
Robert Altman
The Long Goodbye – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews "The Long Goodbye", Robert Altman's 1973 movie based on Chandler’s 1953 Los Angeles-set novel.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) – Review by Pauline Kael
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" is a beautiful pipe dream of a movie — a fleeting, almost diaphanous vision of what frontier life might have been. The film, directed by Robert Altman, and…
Thieves Like Us (1974) – Review by Pauline Kael
"Thieves Like Us" comes closer to the vision and sensibility of Faulkner’s novels than any of the movie adaptations of them do. Altman didn’t start from Faulkner, but he wound up there.…
POPEYE (1980) – Review by Pauline Kael
Sometimes the components of a picture seem miraculously right and you go to it expecting a magical interaction. That's the case with Popeye. But it comes off a little like some of…