We just saw this on DVD from our excellent médiathèque system outside Paris, France, and the movie spooked us both and gave me nightmares, but I am glad to see I can look at it again on YouTube. Thanks! My French spouse thinks it's his fave Altman, and I recall 1977, when this came out, as the darkest period I think I have ever known in the USA. Rust belt, no future, all that. Sad Americana here, pre-David Lynch mainstream fame. There's kind of not even a plot here but it is great.
@aitorshangrila My husband remarked the same thing, and I concur. This is a great example of music which adds to the movie and is not obtrusive, very original. Something about parts of it remind me of Satie somehow. It's kind of jazzy, too. Uprated your comment.
I don't even really understand this movie...it doesn't make much sense to me. I thought that maybe it had some creative meaning behind but...as I said, I don't know.
I'm glad this movie is liked enough for someone to have posted it--I've been CRAVING this movie lately. I accidentally started watching it one day--which is appropriate for this movie--when it was on some channel, and it stuck with me in the oddest way. I can't even figure out how long ago that was---everything about this movie, even my experience of having first watched it, is like a dream.
@rainonbasketcase It inexplicably stuck with me too,having seen it first at twelve.Maybe it explains everything.If nothing else at that age,it instilled a sense of pity for people who try too hard.And,also,a near phobia of tacky menu planning.
This is the WEIRDEST movie I have ever saw. Shelly Duvall is a BITCH and I feel sorry for Sissy Spaceck.I mean at the part where Shelley comes out in that yellow dress when she's going to have that dinner party I said "Look at Miss America!" BLECK! You have GOT to be kidding.
when i first saw this i was 17 yrs old, and was so freaked out by it that it stayed with me for years. i thought seeing it so many years later, i wouldnt like it as much. being older and less manipulatable. but it still has the same weird quality that i remembered. and its still fascinating ,
I would classified as Suspense/Thriller. I love movies like these were they don't go overboard with the acting and the dramalazation. They just have the right amount of formula to spread out with the movie. I always thought this was Sissy Spacek best movie since Carrie and Ginger in The morning.
Great movie to watch in the heat of the summer ... thanks for sharing.. I just got it on DVD..super hypnotic 70's classic film I can watch it over and over again.
This is a nearly indecipherable movie. However, Robert Altman made sure that all the pieces of the puzzle were in plain sight in this movie. In order to help, I will be posting Roger Ebert's "Great Movie" review of this film one paragraph at a time for the rest of the film segments. It may contain some spoilers, but it is the best examination of this movie that anyone has done. Reading it will give you a better appreciation for this film, the director, and the actresses.
I certainly agree; not about the indecipherable quality, which I find minimal...but that is not a hard film to read. But C'mon do you really need to lean on a lightweight like Ebert? Many other academics out there, like Robert Kolker for one, who have much deeper insights into Altman.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Look, with all due respect to Kolker, Ebert is probably the most competent and intelligent of all movie critics. The man is the only movie critic to win the Pulitzer prize and has been named an honorary member of the Film Director's Guild.
Ebert is not a lightweight. The man is the only film critic to win the Pulitzer prize. Not to mention that he is also an honorary member of the Film Director's Guild.
As to this movie....
He was actually friends with Altman and had conversations with him about the content and meaning of this movie. All his interpretations and insights come from the director himself.
I don't care how good Kolker is. There is no more accurate interpretation than the director's.
And I don't think you can "figure it out" as it is not reliable in a narrative sense, but only as a whole with the dream-work concepts of condensation , displacement, and symbolism. Still overrated, even if you look at it as a voice of feminism in the late 70's, which is prob'ly the most profitable way to go.
The director is not the defining entry into the text; as Kurosawa once said, if I could explain it, I wouldn't be making a film. If one can talk about the repressed, then it isn't repressed is it? Anyway auteur theory has been dead for nearly 20 years and Ebert is a film reviewer, not a critic strickly speaking. Try Marsha Kinders' The Art of Dreaming in 3 Women and Providence: Structures of the Self in Film Quarterly, vol 31, no 1 for something more substantial.
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the tag is really off, interesting yes, a masterpiece a qualified no. As far as genre, this would be under the rubric of "Art House" as it is a poor-man's attempt at the conventions of European cinema. The idea of a genre is fluid and many films cannot be contained solely by one or the other. And it is quite possible to talk and write about the film. I've taught it at the Jr. college level and they do just fine! And understand it too!
Yes, thank you 4 posting this. If you want to really be ruler of the galaxy would you consider posting Altman's "Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean..."??
Thank you so much!
UntouchedTakeaway 3 weeks ago
Fucking awesome film, instant favorite. I was not expecting the very end at alllllll.
Capgungoesbang 1 month ago
We just saw this on DVD from our excellent médiathèque system outside Paris, France, and the movie spooked us both and gave me nightmares, but I am glad to see I can look at it again on YouTube. Thanks! My French spouse thinks it's his fave Altman, and I recall 1977, when this came out, as the darkest period I think I have ever known in the USA. Rust belt, no future, all that. Sad Americana here, pre-David Lynch mainstream fame. There's kind of not even a plot here but it is great.
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
I thought Sissy pulled this character off just as well she did with Carrie.
Theshark15z 5 months ago
The Soundtrack is a masterpiece ^^
aitorshangrila 6 months ago
@aitorshangrila My husband remarked the same thing, and I concur. This is a great example of music which adds to the movie and is not obtrusive, very original. Something about parts of it remind me of Satie somehow. It's kind of jazzy, too. Uprated your comment.
CuteCatFaith 4 months ago
I don't even really understand this movie...it doesn't make much sense to me. I thought that maybe it had some creative meaning behind but...as I said, I don't know.
jadaskylar 7 months ago
Altman's best film since MASH imo.
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CecilRhodesIlluminat 9 months ago
I'm glad this movie is liked enough for someone to have posted it--I've been CRAVING this movie lately. I accidentally started watching it one day--which is appropriate for this movie--when it was on some channel, and it stuck with me in the oddest way. I can't even figure out how long ago that was---everything about this movie, even my experience of having first watched it, is like a dream.
rainonbasketcase 11 months ago
@rainonbasketcase It inexplicably stuck with me too,having seen it first at twelve.Maybe it explains everything.If nothing else at that age,it instilled a sense of pity for people who try too hard.And,also,a near phobia of tacky menu planning.
exeuroweenie 4 months ago
Gotta love sissy
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shehananadini 1 year ago
there are a lot of mumbled lines. Anyone know what's being said?
methemopper 1 year ago
@methemopper I use the subtitles option on my dvd player to read the lines.
lilcuddlekill 1 year ago
Definitely one of the top 5 films of the 1970s
johnlovesbridge 1 year ago
This is the WEIRDEST movie I have ever saw. Shelly Duvall is a BITCH and I feel sorry for Sissy Spaceck.I mean at the part where Shelley comes out in that yellow dress when she's going to have that dinner party I said "Look at Miss America!" BLECK! You have GOT to be kidding.
Sheri451 1 year ago
when i first saw this i was 17 yrs old, and was so freaked out by it that it stayed with me for years. i thought seeing it so many years later, i wouldnt like it as much. being older and less manipulatable. but it still has the same weird quality that i remembered. and its still fascinating ,
bobbyb826 1 year ago
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exeuroweenie 1 year ago
I always find it crazy that the most American of filmmakers made the least American film I've ever seen. He totally honored Bergman with this.
nickness126 2 years ago
One of Altman's greatest achievements~! Wonderful piece of work!
MattieCooper 2 years ago 4
at 8.19 duvall is cleaning her famous theeth....
they are both great in this movie,spacek and duvall....its creating a trance -like atmosphere after a while,also due to the music...
piroschka6 2 years ago 3
I would classified as Suspense/Thriller. I love movies like these were they don't go overboard with the acting and the dramalazation. They just have the right amount of formula to spread out with the movie. I always thought this was Sissy Spacek best movie since Carrie and Ginger in The morning.
Theshark15z 2 years ago
What is it about 70's movies? they're just so atmospheric and trippy..we've definitely lost the art of film making.
It's all about action and special effects now...it sucks. Give me 70's films any day!
antonjon1 2 years ago 8
the music is so eerie, i love 70's movies
supernungogo 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have no clue how long I have waited to watch this film.
Like....eight freaking years.
Oh my God.
MorbidBliss22 2 years ago
Me too! Thank you so much.
luvgjb4evr 2 years ago
Trippy film , Scary in a weird way...I enjoyed all the strange conflicting personalities.
acdeucee 2 years ago
Also I want to ask, does anyone else think that a lot of the characters in Three Women are just plain rude?
johnyzero2000 2 years ago
Yes i do, the way they ignore eachother?
I thought that was maybe the way Californions are...
buffboydan 2 years ago
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exeuroweenie 1 year ago
It's an amazing piece of work, Altman goes into Bergman territory but at the same time creates a movie that is an original.
johnyzero2000 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this.
It's certainly getting more views than I would've expected.
thx291 2 years ago
Great movie to watch in the heat of the summer ... thanks for sharing.. I just got it on DVD..super hypnotic 70's classic film I can watch it over and over again.
travisM8888 2 years ago
This is a nearly indecipherable movie. However, Robert Altman made sure that all the pieces of the puzzle were in plain sight in this movie. In order to help, I will be posting Roger Ebert's "Great Movie" review of this film one paragraph at a time for the rest of the film segments. It may contain some spoilers, but it is the best examination of this movie that anyone has done. Reading it will give you a better appreciation for this film, the director, and the actresses.
dorsaiofdorsai 2 years ago
Isn't it indecipherable simply because it was inspired by a dream?
antonjon1 2 years ago
Yes and no.
It has elements that were intentionally left ambiguous, but most of the pieces of the puzzle are there for the viewer to find.
dorsaiofdorsai 2 years ago
I certainly agree; not about the indecipherable quality, which I find minimal...but that is not a hard film to read. But C'mon do you really need to lean on a lightweight like Ebert? Many other academics out there, like Robert Kolker for one, who have much deeper insights into Altman.
pghjeff 2 years ago
Woah, woah, woah.
Ebert a lightweight?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Look, with all due respect to Kolker, Ebert is probably the most competent and intelligent of all movie critics. The man is the only movie critic to win the Pulitzer prize and has been named an honorary member of the Film Director's Guild.
dorsaiofdorsai 2 years ago
Woah, woah.
Ebert is not a lightweight. The man is the only film critic to win the Pulitzer prize. Not to mention that he is also an honorary member of the Film Director's Guild.
As to this movie....
He was actually friends with Altman and had conversations with him about the content and meaning of this movie. All his interpretations and insights come from the director himself.
I don't care how good Kolker is. There is no more accurate interpretation than the director's.
dorsaiofdorsai 2 years ago
And I don't think you can "figure it out" as it is not reliable in a narrative sense, but only as a whole with the dream-work concepts of condensation , displacement, and symbolism. Still overrated, even if you look at it as a voice of feminism in the late 70's, which is prob'ly the most profitable way to go.
pghjeff 2 years ago
The director is not the defining entry into the text; as Kurosawa once said, if I could explain it, I wouldn't be making a film. If one can talk about the repressed, then it isn't repressed is it? Anyway auteur theory has been dead for nearly 20 years and Ebert is a film reviewer, not a critic strickly speaking. Try Marsha Kinders' The Art of Dreaming in 3 Women and Providence: Structures of the Self in Film Quarterly, vol 31, no 1 for something more substantial.
pghjeff 2 years ago
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the tag is really off, interesting yes, a masterpiece a qualified no. As far as genre, this would be under the rubric of "Art House" as it is a poor-man's attempt at the conventions of European cinema. The idea of a genre is fluid and many films cannot be contained solely by one or the other. And it is quite possible to talk and write about the film. I've taught it at the Jr. college level and they do just fine! And understand it too!
pghjeff 2 years ago
Yes everyone, trust the taste of the Smiths fan.
michaelcarrig 2 years ago
Shame they never seem to put obscure and quirky films like this on tv anymore : (
aeronuk1 2 years ago 4
I love Shelley Duvall and Sissy Soacek and I can't thank you enough for putting this film on!!
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Great film.....I would love to fuck Shelley Duvall in this
DanielBowden1975 2 years ago
I agree...with both comments.
debgibsonfan 2 years ago
Robert Altman is the greatest filmmaker
blinkzone1 3 years ago 11
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Yes, thank you 4 posting this. If you want to really be ruler of the galaxy would you consider posting Altman's "Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean..."??
Landrew120880 3 years ago
Thank God for the Criterion Collection!
TIPTON340 3 years ago 23
Thank you for posting this. I could never find this to rent! My sincerest gratitude to you!
philokalia79 3 years ago 7
I 've been looking to watch this movie (and Nashville) for YEARS so I send you my deepest THANKS
delysid22 3 years ago 6
AMAZING FILM!!!
thanks for posting!
this and NASHVILLE are my fav. of the 70's!!!
(that altman, wow)
moveefrk 3 years ago 6