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标题：Controlling the Situation
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作者：Robin Wood
期刊名称：Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism
电子版ISSN：2047-1661
出版年度：2013
期号：4
出版社：University of Warwick
摘要：One can be grateful, for once, for the anomalies of British film distribution: that Robert Altman's two latest films (the long awaited Thieves Like Us , the more recent California Split ) s h o u l d b e r e l e a s e d a l m o s t simultaneously makes for illuminating juxtaposition, the more so in that the films are so different in tone. Though neither, at first viewing, seems to me quite as fine as McCabe and Mrs Miller or The Long Goodbye ( California Split seeming, while splendidly inventive, curiously elusive, Thieves Like Us having the somewhat self-conscious air of artistically worked variations on a familiar theme), the dual premiere cannot but be an event: uneven as Altman's work has been, he has established himself as a director to whom one must attend