Kansas City

I am an unabashed admirer of the personal in film. I suppose cinematic personality can be expressed in a variety of ways, but I value it most when its from a filmmaker, and it affects the cinematic vocabulary. I like... Full review

I Love this Movie Kansas City becuse this movie made me Laugh out loud and it made me cry to.I will recermind this movie to any one to watch this movie.Take from me you will laugh and you will cry but... Full review

I was an extra in the film and it was an illuminating experience. We shot the Union Station scenes in 98 degree heat (no AC) and in winter costumes! I was wearing a wool dress, real silk stockings, leather heels... Full review

Robert Altman was born and raised in Kansas City. This film was, by his description, intended as a tribute to the music he remembers hearing while growing up. 1934 was the highpoint of the Pendergas Machine's political strength in Kansas... Full review

This is the type of film that you have to pay close attention to from beginning to end otherwise you may get lost in the editing. I didn't like how it continuously went back and forth from one subplot to the... Full review

These comments about the movie and a question. I enjoyed the movie, the music , and the "feel" of the film. It seemed very authentic: the sets, the lighting, costumes and the extras in the background. Also the social atmosphere... Full review

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a desperate woman who tries to rescue her boyfriend (Dermot Mulrooney) from the hands of local black mobsters led by Harry Belafonte, who have made him a prisoner after he robbed one of them. She kidnaps... Full review

The movie was obviously a musical satire of the political and social conditions in Americain that era (and to some degree today. Even if Altman did experience it first hand, he it he obviously did research and wrote as well... Full review

This movie does a good job of portraying a 1930s Kansas City of mobsters, racial unrest, petty criminals and jazz, and if all it took to make a good movie was atmosphere then this would be a great film. But all... Full review

Bottom line, whether you love or hate "Kansas City" will depend on your reaction to Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance. Leigh's character Blondie anchors the story as a desperate wife trying to save her husband from the gangsters he tried to rob.... Full review

You just wish "Kansas City" was more satisfying, especially since it comes so close to being successful. Too much of some good things and not quite enough of others, "Kansas City" is the kind of film you're eager to like more than you do. ... Full Review

You just wish "Kansas City" was more satisfying, especially since it comes so close to being successful. Too much of some good things and not quite enough of others, "Kansas City" is the kind of film you're eager to like more than you do. ... Full Review

The elegantly constructed plot.... ... Full Review

it NOT have special effects.....For "Kansas City", both are at their worst:....Richardson's subterranean mysteries offer welcome counterpoint to Altman's banal script and Leigh's tedious contortions.....her husband will be forced to influence crooked nightclub owner Harry Belafonte into freeing the larcenous love of Leigh's life..... ... Full Review

Put another way, the smug old misanthrope has made a damn good movie in spite of himself.....contribute to a fine ensemble performance..... ... Full Review

Dear Mr. Ferraro: There's Meryl Streep, of course - and Karin Viard, who is sort of the French Streep, always different, always brilliant. But consistency is not always (or even usually) a quality of great actors. ... Full Article

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton doesn't know what he's going to play when he steps into the sanctuary of Grace Cathedral on Friday night, when his golden tones will echo through the great Gothic vaults. ... Full Article

Some of the biggest hits of the early rock era were written by two guys who most people never heard of until 1995, when the musical "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opened on Broadway. ... Full Article

Contrary to the poet T.S. Eliot, who famously declared that "April is the cruelest month," April is "the coolest month" for Connecticut jazz fans courtesy of the Hartford Jazz Society (HJS) and Firehouse 12. ... Full Article

"American Idol" champ David Cook, whose new tour includes a Kansas City stop, is now scheduled to also play Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla at 7:30 p.m. ... Full Article

The James Beard Foundation Award Finalists were announced yesterday at Frontera Grill in Chicago, and one Kansas City chef made the list. Colby Garrelts is one of the five finalists in the category "Best Chef: Midwest." ... Full Article