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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 70034
Released: April 25, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Episode Description: Disc 1 "MASH (single disc)": Rating: R Audio: English: Stereo & Mono / French: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Commentary with Robert Altman, AMC Backstory Featurette, Still Gallery and Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2 "A Perfect Couple": Rating: PG Audio: English: Stereo / Spanish: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Perspective on Altman's Perfect Couple, Theatrical Trailer, Fox Flix: A Wedding, Quintet, & MASH
Disc 3 "Quintet": Rating: R Audio: English: Mono & Stereo / French: Mono / Spanish: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Developing the World of Quintet, Theatrical Trailer, Fox Flix: A Wedding, A Perfect Couple, & MASH
Disc 4 "A Wedding": Rating: PG Audio: English: Stereo / French: Mono / Spanish: Mono Subtitles: English & Spanish Special Features: A Wedding Altman Style, Theatrical Trailer, & Fox Flix: Quintet, A Perfect Couple, & MASH
Robert Altman Collection (M*A*S*H / A Perfect Couple / Quintet / A Wedding) Reviews:
A simple hunter of seals 
2009-11-23 - After many years a hunter of seals Essex (Paul Newman) comes home to the city. He beings his wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey.) Before the greetings is over his extended family meats a violent ending. This is just the beginning for Essex as he must now make sense of this.
In the process we learn of a game "Quintet" that reflects the geometric universe and the sense of life.
Will he figure out the sense of the seemingly random disposal of life or will we finally get a glimpse of sixth space.
Keep your eye on the goose.
Appropriately filmed on location at "Man and His World", Montreal. The film has an out of focus border to give us not a dream scene as much as the feeling we are watching the whole movie through a frosty window.
Fine but no need for M*A*S*H again 
2008-07-14 - I love Robert Altman movies and here are three rare ones, finally getting their due. But why is M*A*S*H included, when it was afforded a big two disc set treatment only a couple of year's previously? It would have been a far better idea to have added HEALTH, a really obscure Altman film, that barely got released. MASH was included to make sure their was a popular title in the mix, but to attract fans of the sitcom, not the movie. The Altman devotees, which this composite says is its target audience, bought the MASH set on the first bounce. So, here, the devoted had to rebuy the Korean war film in order to get A WEDDING.
A WEDDING is a fine, funny film which expands the NASHVILLE-style multiple character arena Altman genre to new heights. Wonderful performances and outrageous plot turns will delight fans, but the unwary may be turned off. It is intelligent, fast paced and filled with Altman touches.
A PERFECT COUPLE deserves to be better known. It is a romantic story of two nebbish-y people finding romance in the midst of a wild tangle of Altman weirdos. Funny, well acted, it got dumped on its original release and never got a chance to find an audience.
QUINTET is probably the worst Altman film of all time. Arty, pretentious, devoid of meaning, and boring,
This package cries out for HEALTH, and there really needs to be commentaries. If Altman himself wasn't available, then there are certainly enough serious enthusiasts of his work to add insight to the set. The 'by the book' little documentaries offer very little.
not such a bargain 
2007-11-03 - Ive always been a big fan of robert altmans, and two of these films are certainly marvellous, the classic mash, unsurpassed, and a wedding, which is clever and funny, but the other two, quintet a perfect couple, are a little embarassing for an altman fan, as they really are pretty atrocious.But if youre a movie buff and altman can do no wrong, Im sure youll find some enjoyment even in those disasters.
One bonafide gem, three others for consideration.
2007-01-27 - There's not a whole lot more one can say about MASH, except that it showed that the late Robert Altman was a potent if erratic filmmaker to be reckoned with. "Erratic" is a key word, because while it's true that there are a lot of great films in the Altman canon, there are also a lot of misfires or, at the very least, films that work well in some places and fall apart completely in others. There are a lot of divergent opinions about A WEDDING, QUINTET and A PERFECT COUPLE and, in the end, it probably comes down to one's own patience with Altman's filmmaking methods in each. For my part, QUINTET suceeds the best; it's a dystopian fantasy about the remnants of humanity slowly freezing to death in a snow-covered world, when they're not killing each other off playing a bizarre game called Quintet. Paul Newman plays a traveler who gets caught up in the game and winds up with more than he bargained for from the other players. While a downer, it's an interesting and muted story that explores what life is worth when the world around you is dysfunctional, and it's held my interest each time I've seen it. I'm less fond of A WEDDING and A PERFECT COUPLE. The former just seems to go on and on about how two families with numerous skeletons in their closets fare on the wedding day that joins them together as in-laws. It has all the disparate storyline elements that made films like NASHVILLE and GOSFORD PARK such sucesses, but it feels hectoring, beating you over the head to show you how icky all of these people are. A PERFECT COUPLE is sweet but slight, a tale about a May-December romance that isn't very engaging. At the end I had a hard time figuring out what the two romantic leads saw in each other to stick it out together after their initial encounter through a dating service.
But that's me. Other people I know who mostly love Altman can't stand QUINTET but think A WEDDING was as good as NASHVILLE, if not better, so there you are (I haven't run into any admirers of A PERFECT COUPLE yet, but I don't doubt they're out there). I'm just glad that some of Altman's questionable movies are available in the US, and you might well like all of them. Now if only an NTSC version of THIEVES LIKE US was available....
A Perfect Couple Makes this a Necessity
2007-01-09 - A Perfect Couple - hadn't even heard of this endearing film until Alman's death and this is the only way to get it. It is worth the cost of the collection - of course the other titles don't hurt.
