The Company (2003)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 119 Fresh: 82 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 4 hrs 46 mins
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 extraordinary career, Altman has surprised, entertained and challenged audiences with vibrant,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco
Director: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Barbara Turner
Story: Neve Campbell, Barbara Turner
Producer: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Robert Altman, Neve Campbell
Composer: Van Dyke Parks
Screenwriter: Barbara Turner
Story: Neve Campbell, Barbara Turner
Producer: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Robert Altman, Neve Campbell
Composer: Van Dyke Parks
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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.
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04/25/07
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02/09/06
[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.
01/21/05
...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
01/02/05
[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.
09/23/04
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08/07/04
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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.
06/20/04
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05/01/04
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
04/28/04
To call this movie dramatically inert is to oversell it. This is one of the few non-experimental films that is virtually without plot.
04/23/04
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.
04/09/04
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.
04/02/04
A game try, and it's good to see Altman still at it, and still making his films his own way. But for me, at least, this one is a misfire.
03/31/04
Altman ... whose intuition for placing the camera in just the right spot has always been impressive. In the dance scenes, it's flawless.
03/19/04
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A wonderful documentary on dance. Oh wait! This was a movie?
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