SHORT CUTS

USA, 1993, COLOR, DCP, 188’, ENGLISH

Nine short stories by Raymond Carver, 20+ protagonists, abundant narratives in 3 exorbitant hours of mind-blowing cinema. How to describe and how to weigh what happened to us (already) 30 years ago, when this masterpiece came like a thunderbolt describing so amply the characters of Los Angeles (and the urban world). ‘Something happened’ in Cinema, and it wasn’t only a cold, misanthropic perhaps, movie of such visceral power. It was a perennially modern cinematic fugue, filled with people like us, it was THE urban rhapsody that informed us on the then present, the things to come and the road to perdition we still numbingly tread. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Robert Altman
SCREENWRITERS: Robert Altman, Frank Barhydt
DoP: Walt Lloyd
MUSIC: Mark Isham
EDITOR: Geraldine Peroni
PRINCIPAL CAST: Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Jack Lemmon, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

ROBERT ALTMAN (1925-2006)
American director, influential on the next generation and a well-known thorn in the side of the industry. He fought in World War II and went into the studio during the late ‘40s, but he is considered one of the important figures of New Hollywood. Seven times nominated for an Academy Award (five for Best Director), honored at all important film festivals. He defines a form of narrative modernism.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2001 Gosford Park
1993 Short Cuts
1992 The Player
1975 Nashville
1973 The Long Goodbye
1971 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1970 M*A*S*H*