ACE Presents: Short Cuts

Director: Robert Altman

1993 / 188min / DCP

Based on short fiction (and one poem) by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts is a sprawling film of interlocking vignettes, a broad canvas work even by the standards of ensemble cast crazed Altman. Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Andie MacDowell, and Jennifer Jason Leigh are just a few of the familiar faces playing the film’s 22 Angeleno principles—their storylines finely juggled with the assistance of editor Suzy Elmiger. “Big, tumultuous… More mature, less hysterical than Nashville… The images are so packed with detail, it’s almost impossible to take everything in at one sitting. When future social historians want to know what the temper of life was like in one corner of America in 1993, Short Cuts will be a mother lode of information.” —The New York Times

Q&A with Suzy Elmiger, ACE, moderated by Joseph Krings, ACE, on Saturday, September 14th