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Timely release for this ?HBO? series by Robert Altman. Probably unfamiliar for UKILX0rs but -- C/D?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It was shown on UK TV in '88 IIRC. I didn't watch it tho'. This is pre-Clinton of course (let alone 9/11) so I have doubts as to whether it will resonate much with the recent/current Kerry campaign.

― Jeff W, Monday, 2 August 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

was '88 Dukakis year? cz I have seen people say aha if only Dukakis something-or-rathered. It sounds like an interesting idea, anyway, and I think I heard Soderbergh wanted to re-do it? Forget. Maybe I will leave watching till the real thing is over.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 2 August 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Some cable channel (Trio? Bravo?) was showing this earlier this year, and the Museum of Television and Radio was also screening it.

Who saw Cynthia Nixon in the audience of the convention last week?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

IFC showed them again, I think.

This wasn't very good. An interesting experiment, I guess, but like K Street (the Clooney/Soderbergh HBO show from this spring) it didn't make for compelling TV.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 2 August 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm excited. I've always wanted to see it.

Yeah, re: Cynthia Nixon, Altman is working on a sequel wherein Nixon's character makes a documentary about her father's life in politics. Parts were filmed at the convention. I think there was a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece about it.

― jaymc, Monday, 2 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It's amusing enough to watch but dated. Reminds me of a britcom. Veronica Cartwright is a nice bonus, but Cynthia Nixon is pretty annoying in it.

Who saw Cynthia Nixon in the audience of the convention last week?

I did. She looked really good. SJP was there too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never seen this but that nixon film by altman that criterion's releasing is pathetic.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=257

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Cynthia Nixon, President Nixon's relation?

I saw TANNER 88 a long, long time ago. Probably in the 1980s. It affected me then. But I was young, and green, rather than old, and blue.

― the pinefox, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually think oliver stone's nixon is more interesting than altman's nixon and that's a very serious admission indeed.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Cynthia Nixon is k-rowr.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, the Criterion Forum people are having a lovefest over this LOST ALTMAN CLASSIC BEST FILM EVER ETC ETC

Criterion groupies are a little scary.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ah shit i got 'secret honor' on a decades (two) old vhs aaaaages ago but haven't got round to it. maybe i'll have to watch it so i can hate on it with the criterion peeps. was cynthia nixon in 'tanner'? she must have been quite young then.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

geraty

― randomobserver, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was going to be a thread about the TV series "Full House".

― Huck, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

people are getting their nixons confused. the Richard NIxon film by Altman that criterion is releasing is an old film about RMN, and has nothing to do with Cynthia Nixon. She is making a film for Altman (apparently) that has nothing to do with RMN (as far as I can tell). She was the sexiest Sex in the City woman by far.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Revive!

So who saw "Tanner on Tanner" on BBC4 last night? (I assume it's also been aired in the US on cable). I only saw bits of the BBC's re-run of "Tanner '88" this past week, but did catch all of this follow-up - which, incidentally, explains why Cynthia Nixon was at the Democratic convention in the summer. This film is basically centered around Nixon's character and her attempts to make a documentary looking back at her father's campaign.

There was a nice touch at the end, predicting the likely realpolitik approach a Kerry administration will take on Iraq.

But it was also funny, especially the scene where Alex Tanner and Alex Kerry were trying to interview Ron Reagan simultaneously.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Sunday, 31 October 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The four Tanner on Tanner episodes replay Tuesday night on the Sundance channel for people in the states.

I didn't really enjoy either series. The concept was great, but the first season has dated badly in production values and content, and the second one tried to fit way too much into four episodes and the acting got a bit rough at times (the look on Cynthia Nixon's face for the last ten minutes of Tanner on Tanner)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 31 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone (like me) in the UK who missed it on BBC4 last night can catch it again on Friday night at 11pm (I think)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 31 October 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

have watched abt half of this so far, it's good!, if a bit empty, maybe. i like how dated & non-slick everything looks & it goes hand-in-hand v well w/ altmans overlapping dialogue

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 June 2012 18:59 (thirteen years ago)

also there is the first ever dealwithit.gif in ep 5 after the neorealism-loving videographer plays his first, horrible cut making tanner pro legalizing drugs

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 June 2012 19:00 (thirteen years ago)

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