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Title: Altman's Genuine, Farewell Broadcast
Review: "A Prairie Home Companion" was an entertaining coda, but "Gosford Park" is truly Robert Altman's last great film, in which he applied his distinctive touch--the roving camera, bountiful casts with tight ensemble performances, overlapping dialogue--to another genre that for him was unexplored territory: the English drawing-room murder mystery. Beyond the movie's cheerful performances, the neat twist here that Altman and screenwriter Julian Fellowes's turn is on class distinctions, internal hierarchies within classes, and how members of those classes cannot keep from intersecting with one another. "Gosford Park" is Altman's answer to Agatha Christie, even as "The Long Goodbye" is his take on Raymond Chandler. Not since William Wellman has a single director approached such a range of movie genres and impressed on them such a distinctive stamp.
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