MASH is a 1970 film about the surgeons stationed in a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean war. Directed by Robert Altman . Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. , based on the book by Richard Hooker . M*A*S*H . Contents 1 Hawkeye 2 Trapper John 3 Duke 4 Painless 5...
As a filmmaker, Robert Altman (born 1925) was known as a risk taker and a nonconformist, who was committed at all cost to his own vision. While this led to what many critics consider a highly uneven output, successes like M*A*S*H (1971), Nashville (1975)...
MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise. The film depicts an outfit of medical...
University Wire 05-16-2005 (Michigan Daily) (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A simple way to describe the new romantic comedy "Monster-In-Law" is to call it a female-oriented (and less funny) version of "Meet The Parents." But while both films pivot around a couple going through...
THE FACE OF HORROR: From 'Frankensten' on, each era has shaped its own nightmares. But they all offer the pleasures of vicarious terror, of being safely scared. THEN HIS TEETH FLEW OUT; FROM TWO SIDES, BLOOD CAME TO his eyes; the blood that...
A: The live mash-up concept was a good idea in theory, but for the most part, I don't think it translated that well from the studio to the stage.B: Yeah, it can work if it's as carefully orchestrated as the Jay-Z/Linkin Park mash-up. You can't...
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Altman likes show-business motifs, which appear regularly in his films, or bits of activity related to shows, and this derives, at least partly, from being comfortable with his performers. Donald Sutherland's and Elliott Gould's behavior in M∗A∗S∗H is a show in itself—theatrical, mannered, and even artificial in its heightened, cool relaxation. And there's the spoof of John Schuck's "suicide," a play in itself, complete with music and a g...
Mash (as I'll call [M∗A∗S∗H] for short) is a comedy at which you may very well do not just a double but a quadruple take…. (p. 38) What makes Mash outstanding—and as something more than a wacky comedy—is the richness of its texture. The characters stroll, run, interweave among the tents of their unit; dust swirls around them; the camera pans and cuts to seemingly random details. Meanwhile, on the sound track, lines of dialogue overlap or are casually tossed a...
M∗A∗S∗H is a marvellously unstable comedy, a tough, funny, and sophisticated burlesque of military attitudes that is at the same time a tale of chivalry. It's a sick joke, but it's also generous and romantic—an erratic, episodic film, full of the pleasures of the unexpected. I think it's the closest an American movie has come to the kind of constantly surprising mixture in Shoot the Piano Player, though M∗A∗S∗H moves so fast that it...
