Episode 98: FINALLY! Special guest Rémy Bennett joins us for our first and long-overdue Robert Altman deep-dive — one fucking hour on 3 WOMEN. Starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek, this sun-bleached fever dream of the female psyche is one of the most unusual and compelling films of the 1970s.
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My Top 5 unsolicited wish list for future OFH eps:
1) Basket Case
2) Kids
3) Repo Man
4) Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue
5) Lady in a Cage
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FUCK YES!, been waiting for this new episode damn, I somehow have binged every episode save for two or three films I haven't seen. I will become a member. I remember the first time I saw 3 Women it blew my socks off. Incredible editing, love the Altman zooms, and uniquely psyche-shattering casting. What a foray into Altman.
"They're called love apples but I don't love 'em."
I don't know why but that line is weirdly adorable and it just cracks me up!!!
Wooo, I love this movie. Shelley Duvall's yellow outfit she wore in the pool scene looked so comfy.
It also helped that Altman basically made this as his final version of this type of movie that started with Persona with Bergman and then Altman tried with That Cold Day in the Park and Images, so why have a script when he has three movies to use as inspiration.
You guys put me onto Messiah of Evil, and I really appreciate you are opening up a whole new cinematic world for me (and by extension my friends and family—whether they like it or not). I look forward to watching the whole back-catalog. 🙂
On another note, what is the music in the intro? I love the drop, but it is also the point where you start talking so I would love to check it out.
Great movie, excellent review, these type of films really bring out the cool commentary more, and your camaraderie is really cool,
Glad to hear more Altman to come, I feel like Images is similar to inland Empire, in that it’s not the Directors best film, but probably the best ones to dive into and get in depth for this show, another thing I realized is how empty today’s movies are in exploring dreams and surrealism compared to previous decades, when in fact Cinema by its pure nature and mechanism is totally up for that Communication, so again, great genre for discussion!
Fugue State February happening in March makes sense.
Are you all sure you don’t wanna do a One Fucking Season deep dive on True Detective: Night Country? 😂
Great one. And look, I know you get bombarded with recommendations, but it would seriously be weird if you didn't, at some point, do Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion. So perfect for 1FH.
3 Women really feels like a Raymond Carver short story in setting & characterization (Short Cuts is my favorite Altman)…there's one of his called ‘The Bridle’ that involves someone jumping from the roof of an apartment complex into a pool like in 3 Women….although looking it up now, it was written /after/ 3 Women.
3 Women?! Hell Yeah!!! And Performance next time?!!! OMG! You folks are killing it! 3 Women is a movie I obsessed over in the late 70's on cable in high school. What a masterpiece of identity blurring and shifting within Nowhereville Ca. Altman had the gift of making these oddball lost people worthy of our attention and care. I love these films where identity and 'personality' are up for question. Because in real life our identities are always in flux depending on who we are around and the influence they have on us. One of my favorite off the radar films which delves into mistaken identity, which of course is a little different than this films theme, is Mr. Klein, with Alain Delon, as an art dealer, who gets mistaken for a Jewish man in WW2, and is pulled into a nightmare he can't escape from. Can't wait to see what you have for Ep. 100!! Btw…Just a week ago I was thinking about 3 Women and wondering if somebody was going to do a reaction, and Boom!, you guys delivered. Thanks!