Tag Archives: Robert Altman

PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading →

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ABANDONMENT ANXIETY & MAD PRIDE

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dave

As is well documented, Van Gogh, shot himself, accidentally or intentionally.It was called a suicide. But, was his own physician partly to blame for his death? The end of Vincent Van Gogh, was indeed strange. …. In 1947, Antonin Artaud, … Continue reading →