Tanner on Tanner (2004) - Robert Altman

Tanner on Tanner (2004) - Robert Altman

Country: USA 2004
Director: Robert Altman

Writer: Garry Trudeau Runtime: 120 min Language: English

2005 Nominated DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television

The creators of Tanner '88, director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau, return 16 years later to their fictional presidential candidate, Jack Tanner (Michael Murphy). Now the focus is on his controlling daughter (Cynthia Nixon), a fair-weather filmmaker trying to put together a film about her father's 1988 campaign. The mix of seemingly unscripted dialogue and heady political talk is still present, but this series (four half-hour episodes that aired on Showtime right before the 2004 presidential election) concentrate on--and lampoon--documentary films and the passion, misdirected or not, that goes into them. Does simply having a camera focused at the subject really make a film? Fans of Altman's cocktail of eavesdropping will not be disappointed. A diner at the New York gathering spot Elaine's can give us a shot of celebrity: there's Martin Scorsese and Steve Buscemi talking about film, former governor Mario Cuomo riffing on President Bush. Although there are certain joys--like Jack Tanner's return to the convention floor--the results, the insight, and even the laughs are not the same as 16 years ago. --Doug Thomas
As with Tanner 88, Tanner on Tanner mixes fact and fiction, and cameos include Robert Redford, Martin Scorsese, Howard Dean and Ron Reagan Jr. But whereas Tanner 88 satirised politics, it's the media that comes in for the most stick in Tanner on Tanner.
The media circus reaches its climax at the Democratic Convention in Boston, where Alex Tanner encounters Alex Kerry - who is herself making a documentary about her father - John Kerry. As Altman has said in an interview, "We were really unknown when we were running around in '88. All we had to attract anybody with was a camera. This year, we were one of 40 documentary crews with accreditation. It's silly. We were pretty much following each other around."
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http://rapidshare.com/files/271486988/T__on_T_Eps01.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/270772562/T_on_T_Eps02.part3.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/271655667/T_on_T_Eps03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271414149/T_on_T_Eps03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271074700/T_on_T_Eps04.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271112613/T_on_T_Eps04.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/271150212/T_on_T_Fact_and_Fiction.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271152765/T_on_T_Follow_Up.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271175274/T_on_T_On_Set.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271157150/T_on_T_On_Set_2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271163152/T_on_T_On_Set_3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271181959/T_on_T_Politic_of_Docs.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/271195690/T_on_T_Since_88.rar

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