I haven't seen it, however I just looked it up and now want to.
This discussion makes it sound intriguing:
https://moviechat.org/tt0065086/That-Cold-Day-in-the-Park/58c72a7f5ec57f0478f1e5bb/REMARKABLE-performance
If you can believe it, Roger Ebert gave it 1 1/2 stars when it came out--that's when he was first starting out as a critic. The very next year his idol Pauline Kael gave him permission to like Altman with MASH, and rarely did he give a bad review to one of Altman's films after that.
It is worth watching for Sandy Dennis alone. I thought it was a powerful performance, and Altman used some of the stylistic techniques for which he became known later such as overlapping dialogue and creative use of the zoom lens. Much of it feels like a play, but two scenes stand out as being particularly Altmanesque: the visit to a women's clinic and a later scene in a restaurant when Frances is searching for a whore for the Boy. Both of these scenes contain snippets of conversations going on around the central character and the scenes feel improvised. (I particularly like the overheard conversation of the women at the clinic talking about the fact men have different-sized penises!)
I got Olive Films'Blu ray a couple of years ago. Not the best transfer I've ever seen, but I was just glad the film had been resurrected from obscurity.
Never saw it, indeed never heard of it until just now. 7.0 on IMDB, 43% on RT.
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Nashville is my 3rd favorite :)
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What are your favorite and second favorite?
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-Harry and Tonto
-La Strada
I also love They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Network, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, There Will Be Blood, Battle of Algiers, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Woman Under The Influence, Buffalo '66, The Misfits, La Grande Illusion
MASH is my favorite. Other than that though, I'm not a big Altman fan.
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I'll try to rank...
Nashville - 10/10
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - 10/10
The Long Goodbye - 8/10
That Cold Day In The Park - 8/10
Secret Honor - 7.5/10
Three Women - 7/10
Vincent & Theo - 7/10
The Player - 7/10
Thieves Like Us - 6/10
California Split - 6/10
M*A*S*H - 6/10
Short Cuts - 6/10
A Perfect Couple - 6/10
A Prairie Home Companion - 6/10
HealtH - 5.5/10
Brewster McLeod - 5/10
Streamers - 5/10
Gosford Park - 4/10
Fool For Love - 3/10
Tanner '88 - 8/10 (great political sitcom!)
You're obviously a true Altman fan. The only ones I've seen are MASH, Nashville and Gosford Park.
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Gosford Park only a 4/10, really? It's one of my favorite Altman films. Also The Player.
I have one of the original shooting scripts from Brewster McCloud. I'm 99% sure it was Bud Cort's.
Why did you rank Gosford Park so low? It has some of the best British actors in the film industry and was one of Altman's biggest international hits. If you didn't like it because its murder mystery plot is soft-pedaled, that was entirely the point!
shareI can't remember a thing I liked about the movie..
shareI don't see " Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" or "OC & Stiggs" on your list. They are currently available on Youtube. "Jimmy Dean" is especially worth watching as another of his "play movies" like Secret Honor which you ranked very high. This is the Youtube link based on the Olive Films HD transfer and looks much better than any previous version I've seen:
https://youtu.be/OjN31G9KXJA
"Five and Dime" was a movie I couldn't get into.. Same with Quintet, Cookie's Fortune, and Judge Roy Bean - so I'll save those for last... I think I saw those first two just today on Youtube, but I'll get that last one too. What do you think of them?
I just remember nothing really happening in the first 30 minutes or so... Did you like them?
Quintet is interminable, but it was made during a period after Altman lost both his parents within a short period and is illustrative of whatever state of mind he might have been in then. Cookie's Fortune was made in my home state of Mississippi (like Thieves Like Us) and I once got a chance to talk to Patricia Neal about making it, so I'm more partial to it than some might be. Glenn Close was particularly good in it. Judge Roy Bean is a John Huston film--are you sure you weren't confusing it with "Buffalo Bill and the Indians"?
shareI forgot about his parents (I read his bio years ago)..... And ah ah yeah.. thank you! "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" -- it was the Huston picture that I couldn't finish. Not sure why. I remember loving Newman throwing his weight around, "because I said so" frontier justice., lol
Speaking of Newman, Huston said his worst movie was "The Mackintosh Man" (and I agree, and they had James Mason, too!)
I have to see this. Three Women is phenomenal.
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