Short Cuts

I almost stopped watching after the first hour but stuck with until the end. I'm glad I did. It sucked me in. I wanted to know what happened to these people.... Full review

Maybe I'm not refined enough to appreciate this movie, but I thought it was boring from the first scene to the last scene. I would say that less that 5 interesting things happen in the movie. I found the characters to... Full review

Compelling movie. Filled with characters who are dysfunctional and real. Three hours long but went very quickly and I wanted it to go on longer. I watched August 2007, it was made in 1993 but the movie didn't appear outdated and... Full review

The many residents of Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" do so much more than that: they lie, cheat, steal, kill, ache, long, burn-out, shine bright, fade in the background, sing, dance, drink, make love, screw, shout, scream, fight, and purge their... Full review

I don't know the reason why some films has to be so boring and dry. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time watching a movie because it's not interesting me at all. This film is as drab as I can... Full review

Robert Altman has never shied away from casting every actor known to mankind in his films, and this is certainly true with his 1993 film "Short Cuts", a film set in Los Angeles over the course of a couple of... Full review

Stunning! Brilliantly directed, amazing intertwining (short) storylines, great performances, realistic dialogue, moving, funny, sad, liberating. A true masterpiece! It's loooong but believe me you won't want it to end.... Full review

When Altman is good he's among the greatest, and SHORT CUTS is among his best (M*A*S*H, BREWSTER McCLOUD, NASHVILLE). Adapted from Raymond Carver's collection of stories, SHORT CUTS offers a roving, restless glimpse into the lives of several Los Angelinos.... Full review

In front of a group of fishermen, a waitress bends over for a slab of butter. They take in the image like hungry wolves gulping meat, as her skirt rises high, revealing everything. They like what they see, so they... Full review

A classic bit of Altman - the story of cross-cutting lives over several days in LA. Featuring an all-star cast featuring a host of great character actors including Tim Robins, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh to name a few.The performances... Full review

the form he has chosen mimics so elegantly the boisterous cacophony of a really good Altman movie....his story lacks a big action beat in the first 20 minutes, not to mention a "relatable" hero.....regrets play across his pages with no agenda other than to clarify and illuminate the up-and-down-and-up career of a brilliant, erratic film artist.....bolic approach Altman favored.....to send both the director's admirers and his detractors racing to their DVD shelves to make their cases..... ... Full Review

There's a lot of sex in the film, both wayward and faithful. The talent arrayed here is staggering, and there isn't a poorly cast character in the bunch. ... Full Review

Death, or that state beyond natural color, is Short Cuts common denominator. He writes in the Short Cuts book introduction, Somebody wins the lottery. Like ketchup, Short Cuts is an example of America, bottled and beyond natural color. ... Full Review

April 11, 2001 Part of the miracle of Robert Altman's triumphantly fierce, funny, moving and innovative Short Cuts is that you can't get this movie out of your head. Altman weaves nine Raymond Carver short stories (plus one narrative poem) and 22 principal characters into 189 compulsively watchable minutes that leave you wrung out emotionally but still hungry for more. ... Full Review

Narratively, his films are often absurd and Short Cuts is no exception. Short Cuts dips in and out of the different lives of its characters: a waitress and a chauffeur with a drinking problem, a pool cleaning man and his phone sex hostess wife, as it tells its stories. ... Full Review

It was the middle of summer and broiling-hot - stifling. The location was a good 40 minutes from the Red Lion Inn, where people were staying. ... Full Article

Here is your exam question: who is the last American movie director who made thirty-nine films but never won the Oscar for best director? Name the film by that director that cost the most money, and name the film of... ... Full Article

In his film, Short Cuts , Robert Altman uses several techniques to bring the selected short stories of Raymond Carver together into a cohesive film. ... Full Article

I t's easy to see how a filmmaker could read one of Raymond Carver's spare little stories of domesticated males attempting to reassert their primacy and think, Why don't I flesh that out a bit? -and then discover, too late,... ... Full Article

This Australian ensemble drama is a bit like a minor riff on Robert Altman 's Short Cuts. Half-a-dozen people, stricken in some way by a suburban railway accident, are trying to get their lives together again. ... Full Article

Short Cuts on today's generation of new filmmakers: Call it "Car Crashes, Hospitals & Clowns: Cultural Fragmentation and the Robert Altman Mosaic." Altman's 1993 masterpiece has inspired and shaped a generation of directors unlike any other film since, well, Star... ... Full Article