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The Company (2003)

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Reviews Counted:121

Fresh:84

Rotten:37

Average Rating:6.5/10

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] on appeal for brief strong language, some nudity and sexual content

Runtime: 4 hrs 46 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2003 Limited

Box Office: $2,164,659

Synopsis: Robert Altman follows up the stunning success of the Academy Award-winning GOSFORD PARK with THE COMPANY, a look at the world of ballet as only Altman could envision it. Throughout his... Robert Altman follows up the stunning success of the Academy Award-winning GOSFORD PARK with THE COMPANY, a look at the world of ballet as only Altman could envision it. Throughout his extraordinary career, Altman has surprised, entertained and challenged audiences with vibrant, freewheeling films that stretch the boundaries of the medium. With THE COMPANY, this iconic director brings his fluid, masterful camera-work to the world of dance. Altman’s vision for the film is an extremely intimate one: we will see the difficult daily work, the intense pressures of performance, the richly textured behaviors of the dancers -- whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close -- and of course the sheer beauty of dance: exhilarating, kinetic, and thrillingly observed. The authenticity and richness of THE COMPANY is rooted in the unprecedented way in which Altman will shoot the film: with the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Screenwriter Barbara Turner (POLLACK, GEORGIA) spent over two years on and off with the Joffrey, observing and writing. Joffrey dancers will constitute the core of Altman’s ensemble. The only actor who will be working as part of the Joffrey corps is Neve Campbell (the popular SCREAM movies and the television show “Party of Five?. Campbell, an accomplished dancer, studied with The National Ballet of Canada before becoming an actress. She originated THE COMPANY, the culmination of a long-held dream to create a nuanced and realistic film about a world for which she has deep and abiding affection. Campbell’s role in the film is that of a gifted but conflicted company member on the verge of becoming a principal dancer. (Campbell has been working intensively with the Joffrey and will do all of her own dancing in the film.) Non-dancing actors will include James Franco (SPIDERMAN, JAMES DEAN), and Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, O LUCKY MAN!, GANGSTER NO. 1). THE COMPANY, as Altman envisions it, might best be described in terms suited themselves to dance: fluid, sexy, intimate, alive. It is a love letter to artists who work in this singularly difficult and universally expressive medium, to the people who make the performance possible, and to dance itself. -- © Sony Pictures Classics [More]

Starring: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco

Starring: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Barbara Turner
Story: Neve Campbell, Barbara Turner
Producer: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Robert Altman, Neve Campbell
Composer: Van Dyke Parks
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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Dance sequences, both in the studio and in performance, make up the symbolic and potent thrust of this enjoyable yet confined movie.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
05/04/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
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10/18/08
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Eschews any concern with the cinematic foreground in favor of wide-angled pans across an expanded back cast encouraged to indulge in Altman's trademark overlapping dialogue.

Full Review Source: Princeton Town Topics | comment Comment
04/25/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Princeton Town Topics
N/R

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02/09/06
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03/05/05
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic

[Altman's] trademarks -- invisible editing, doped-up zooms, overlapping conversations -- are all on display, but those looking for any sense of momentum will be disappointed.

Full Review Source: Portland Mercury | comment Comment
01/21/05
Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright
Portland Mercury

...can be read as a movie about movie-making, about how casts are assembled and tricked...into yielding something more profound than they might have thought themselves capable

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/02/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

[Altman] fondly documents the ins and outs of this notoriously exotic gang of artists as if he were an amateur anthropologist smitten by an eccentric tribe.

Full Review Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) | comment Comment
09/23/04
Thomas Peyser
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
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Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/04
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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My feeling is that The Company is meant to be enjoyed just as we would enjoy the dance it chronicles. It's a miscalculation, but not a grave offense.

Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | comment Comment
06/20/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | comment Comment
05/17/04
Sunday Times (Australia)

The venerable Altman's distinctive eye remains undimmed.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
05/14/04
Angie Errigo
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine

Meanders aimlessly until eventually falling flat on its face.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
05/11/04
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
BBC

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05/05/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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05/01/04
Anita Katz
Anita Katz
San Francisco Examiner

By the time Campbell and her partner pair off for … "My Funny Valentine," the film has become a love letter to the expanding the limits of artistic expression

Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife | comment Comment
04/28/04
Matt Kelemen
Matt Kelemen
Las Vegas CityLife

To call this movie dramatically inert is to oversell it. This is one of the few non-experimental films that is virtually without plot.

Full Review Source: Lawrence Journal-World | comment Comment
04/23/04
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

The real star of this movie is dance, and [director Robert] Altman -- with cinematographer Andrew Dunne -- has captured some of the finest footage I have seen.

Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
04/09/04
Forrest Hartman
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal

The extended dance scenes don't match the experience of watching ballet live but The Company succeeds in conveying the fluid grace, the beauty that's possible in dance.

Full Review Source: Des Moines Register | comment Comment
04/02/04
Jeffrey Bruner
Jeffrey Bruner
Des Moines Register
 
 
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November 21, 2006: Auteur Robert Altman Passes Away at 81
Robert Altman, the esteemed and venerable director of "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "The Player," died Monday from complications due to cancer. He... More...

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