Images (1972)
- Directed by
- Robert Altman
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 165 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A children's book author goes to a remote vacation home. She starts seeing apparitions and hallucinations that blur reality and her own sanity.
unsettlingdreamlikeslow-burntensepsychologicalatmosphericdisorientingintrospective
What happens
Images is a 1972 psychological horror film directed and co-written by Robert Altman and starring Susannah York, René Auberjonois and Marcel Bozzuffi. The picture follows an unstable children's author who finds herself engulfed in apparitions and hallucinations while staying at her remote vacation home. Conceived by Altman in the mid-1960s, Images secured financing in 1971 by Hemdale Film Group Ltd., and shot on location in County Wicklow, Ireland in the fall of that year. The script, which had been sparsely composed by Altman, was collaboratively developed further throughout the shoot with the actors. Images premiered at the 25th Cannes Film Festival, where York won the award for Best Actress, after which it was released theatrically in the United States by Columbia Pictures on December 18, 1972. Its theatrical run in the United States was short-lived, and the film received little promotion from Hemdale in the United Kingdom. Critical reception of the film was mixed, with some critics praising York's performance and Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, while others faulted it for being incoherent, comparing it to films like Repulsion (1965). The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film, and John Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film gained stature in the decades after it was released, partly because it became more accessible to viewers and critics than it was on first release, and partly because it is the only horror movie directed by Robert Altman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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