Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 10, Week 7

"Tracy!.....Tracy!....Tracy!" These are the first words uttered by scene-stealer Virginia Weidler at the start of George Cukor's magnificent The Philadelphia Story. The "How do you spell omelet?" line (the most popular submission) is uttered not by the young Dinah, but by Ms. Hepburn, moments later. Partial credit, perhaps? Well, it's just going on 3:22 AM, and I'm still in a bit of a funk over Altman's death. I spent the past two hours watching scenes from his films while raising a glass and drowning sorrows in multiple pours of Lagavulin. (You know, sometimes I forget just how amazing Elliot Gould is.) There are DVDs scattered all over the room, and a still shot on the TV of the lunatics from Les Boréades, Altman's segment in the uneven Aria. Not the best conditions for me to prepare a quiz, but here goes. Oh wait....first, here's Annie Ross singing Conversation on a Barstool from Short Cuts. What a great song to listen to at 3:30 AM. I'm tired, so tired, I can hardly stand. . . (Right click to save.) For this week's quiz (special soaked in whiskey edition): how could I not? Name the film. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Comments

[mike]

Hey Filmbrain, on that issue we were talking about a couple of days ago, the movie "Holiday" (Oh, Lydia) is set to release on DVD on 5 December 2006. Decent movie. Worth a rental.

[john]

It may seem selfish, but I fondly hope that the dear man's passing inspires someone to bring "HEALTH", one of Altman's more conspicuously overlooked features, to the DVD buying public. 20th Century Fox appears to be the diety to whom supplications should be forwarded. I believe there are more than a few film lovers out there tonight who would be ecstatic to plunge headfirst into an Altman film that for all intents and purposes would be brand-new to them.

I am among the happy few to have seen this bubbly, sprawling playground of a movie. I was living in Chicago's Lincoln Park when the film showed up on the schedule at the late, lamented Parkway Theater. That the film had been denied all but piecemeal distribution was an explicit part of the Parkway's promotion of it.

Vincent Canby loved it, and gave it its due like few others have:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Health%20%28Movie%29&title2=&reviewer=VINCENT%20CANBY&pdate=19820407&v_id=126126

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[Filmbrain]

Couldn't agree more John. Fox has been showing it on their movie channel, so perhaps a DVD is in the works.

I reviewed the film a while back -- you can read it here.

[Eric]

I'm happy I'm not the only one who can see the brighter side of Altman's departure. I'd be up for Five & Dime on DVD as well. I saw that recently at the AFI Silver and it was just terrific. His "women's" films are quite awesome and unfortunately not as well-known as his satires. I'm not gonna lie, I also like Dr. T.

[Noel Vera]

I was jeez, I must have been in my teens when I saw that film, and it's probably the second Altman I ever saw (maybe third; I don't remember when I saw Popeye). I thought the final image wash the funniest punchline in any Altman movie, anwywhere.

[Toto]

If it was whiskey you were drinking, it would not have been Lagavulin. Bush Mills, perhaps?

[Filmbrain]

Fair enough, Toto. Lagavulin, without the 'e'.