Brewster McCloud

" Brewster McCloud " (1970) After the commercial and financial success of M*A*S*H (1970) , Robert Altman had enough carte blanche to pick his own next project. He chose Brewster McCloud , but completely overhauled the screenplay by way of total re-imaginings and on-the-fly conceptual improvisation during production; although Doran William Cannon (who had just previously written the notorious Otto Preminger star-studded baffler; Skidoo (1968) ), retained sole writing credit due to a clause in his contract. Because of the nature of the film's particular free range, open conduit, happenstance, given up birth of creation, Altman has said that it was his favorite of his own films. It also marks the beginning of Altman’s perfect decade. Brewster McCloud is a masterpiece of offbeat, borderline abstract, metaphorical and iconoclastic cinematic dexterity. Altman weaves multi-faceted, pan-dimensional characters, realties, chronologies, ideas, styles and techniques into a freewheeling comedy of abstraction and bird metaphors; set against his favorite 2.35:1 anamorphic true widescreen frame ratio. Bud Cort plays the title character, Brewster McCloud; a seemingly enigmatic, reclusive and obsess

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