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Part of Weekend Classics: Altman at 100
An introverted loner (Bud Cort) living in the bowels of the Houston Astrodome plots to develop a pair of wings—with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel (Sally Kellerman). Whimsical and offbeat, BREWSTER MCCLOUD was often cited as the filmmaker’s personal favorite. Also starring Shelley Duvall, Stacy Keach and Sally Kirkland.
“We get the sense of a live intelligence, rushing things ahead on the screen, not worrying whether we’ll understand…. I wonder if the movie isn’t primarily style; if Altman doesn’t have a personal sense of humor and wants his directing style to reflect it. One could, of course, get into a deep thing about birds and wings and freedom, but why?” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Dec 24, 1970) “When asked about BREWSTER McCLOUD in a 1976 Playboy interview, Altman responded: ‘I wouldn’t say it’s my best film […] but it’s my favorite’.... Altman confessed that the perfect response to his films would be someone saying ‘I don’t know what it is, but it’s right,’ and that ‘right comes from four or five layers down; from the inside rather than the outside.’” —Little White Lies “It remains one of Altman’s more underrated and polarizing works, and yet his most vitally important one for anyone trying to make sense of the very absurd America we now know…. Altman intimately involves us with everything that happens on-screen in his film. We are not exempt or removed from the bizarre world of BREWSTER McCLOUD because the world of BREWSTER McCLOUD is our world…. He shows us that BREWSTER McCLOUD is not the antithesis of our society but rather a witty and prescient reflection of it — and that our ‘logical’ world isn’t so logical after all.” —Matt Mckinzie, Pop Matters
