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thehousenextdooronline.com - 6/13/2008
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By Jonathan Pacheco For nearly a decade, I've felt a certain allegiance to Robert Altman's Short Cuts , and I'd never seen a single frame of it. It was always known as a "big sister" to the sprawling ensemble films that I became obsessed with in the late 90s; if I loved movies like Magnolia so much, then there's no doubt that Altman's opus must've been exceptional. I took this allegiance so ...
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... ). Not necessarily a group of stories, rather a group of occurrences: As if in protest at such meagre fare, The House Next Door has decided that tonight they're going to party like it's 1993, ignoring the bleak present moment to train their critical facilities on the unfaded grandeur of Robert Altman's Short Cuts - although, strangely, through the prism of it having spawned the various ornately multi-layered, coincidence-heavy epics of the late 90s and early 00s. Magnolia: yup, fine, the lineage there is obvious - but surely Altman's deadpan masterpiece deserves better than ...
