Tag: A Prairie Home Companion
-
The Robert Altman Film That Paul Thomas Anderson Almost Directed
It’s a rarity in Hollywood that a director will be honest about borrowing stylistic devices from another filmmaker. But unlike most in the business, Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman had a uniquely different kind of relationship. And when Anderson came out and admitted that he had been “ripping off Altman for years” it was…
-
Film Review: ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’
In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album “Desire,” Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break. A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom. So in the fall of that year, he launched…