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 o...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
[The] good guys of M∗A∗S∗H are not just a bunch of merry pranksters on a spree. They are best understood, I think, as Robin Hoods of rationalis...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
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 chi...
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Critical Essay by Judith M. Kass
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 comfortabl...
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Critical Essay by William Johnson
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)...
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Critical Essay by Jan Dawson
[If there's one moral that can safely be drawn from the succession of gags and incidents which provide M∗A∗S∗H's] sprawling narrative s...
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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 orchestrat...
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K. Ross and Elsewhere, who make up the Brooklyn-based DJ duo Sound Advice, have fused the eccentric sounds of Gnarls Barkley with the legendary lyrics of Biggie Smalls to create the 11-track album,...
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There’s an avid, glittery quality to Nicole Kidman’s eyes. Kubrick understood that she’s particularly suited to suggesting lewdness—“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”...
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There’s an avid, glittery quality to Nicole Kidman’s eyes. Kubrick understood that she’s particularly suited to suggesting lewdness—“Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”...
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At half-past midnight, the helicopters dropped off the wounded _ fleeting silhouettes wheeled away on gurneys in the glow of blue landing lights, four soldiers among the last of thousands to pass t...
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Although you may picture me standing at stove. Chopping nuts with precision, grinding each clove. Pumpkin muffins, pies and glamorous cakes. Joyous holiday desserts, the best I do make. Calibrate o...
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Notorious B.I.G. and Frank Sinatra are mashed together for Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy a mix CD made by two New York-based DJs. Biggie's rhymes are layered over beats from Sinatra, a mix made by DJ Ca...
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Robert Altman
Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
AmsterJam 2005 Mash Up: Mixing Rock and Rap
