A Wedding

Altman finally made a movie that's 100% side plot.

Klon

Robert Altman brings his sharp knack for social observation to the best and most horrific of all people-watching settings: “A Wedding.” Altman’s standard shtick of colliding a bunch of oddballs together lends itself perfectly to a genre based on the forced interactions of…

theriverjordan

Altman touched most genres, and with this one, you get his wedding comedy. I think it's pretty brilliant. He's juggling perhaps his largest cast and every little nuance in character gets a set up and payoff. He knows just when to cut from scene to scene, usually on a casual…

Colin the dude

I know this is one of my most minority opinions, but this has always been one of my favorite Altmans, a superb hangout comedy with a fittingly bleak view of matrimony and human nature. Carol Burnett should have worked with Altman more, too. She's so dialed into his whole…

Emily St. James

Nobody shoots weddings like Bob Altman. Nobody.

the homeless rockstar of palo alto

The plotless accumulation of small bits of behavior pays off intriguing enough for one hour or so. Eventually the film's lack of shape has a price as Altman has to add more forms of payoff to secrets, and the car accident in the end is one of his cheapest worst ideas. It is…

Filipe Furtado

The enjoyment I felt watching this movie was tempered a little bit by the sour thought that this kind of movie can no longer be made. Looking at this movie 37 years after it was made is like being a miserable medieval serf looking up at the Roman aqueducts. They used to…

Lars Nilsen

Nashville, Short Cuts, HealtH, A Wedding, and Pret a Porter. Can we get a box set.

Cooper D

Grateful to the Nitehawk for their Altman series. This *never* shows. Its reputation as one of the mid-Altmans turns out to be true, but there is so much in it that is so Altman that mid can still be glorious. Something about the widescreen lensing and framing reminded me…

Aki Menzies