From: redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick)
Subject: Re: Calling all film experts: name this film
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:39:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.044818.10567@oakhill.sps.mot.com> hunter@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Hunter Scales) writes:
>
>	For the past week, I have been trying remember the title of a 
>	film.  Unfortunately, old age having set it, I can only recall
>	vague bits of the film.  However, even with these slim clues,
>	I am confident that the collective memory of the net will provide the
>	answer.
>	Anyway here is as much as I can dredge out of my feeble memory:
>
>	Plot:
>	The film was set in England (I dont know whether or not it is an
>	English production).  The plot involves a woman who is either
>	going mad or whose husband is trying to do away with here.  We
>	are not sure until the very end of the film.  The opening scenes 
>	are in an apartment in a city but soon the action moves to a 
>	cottage in the country.  I remember quite vividly because there
>	is an autombile ride from the city to the country.  The car pulls
>	off the side of the road, overlooking a valley.  There is a cabin
>	in the valley below.  The woman gets out of the car and looks
>	down at the cabin straining to see a person standing next to 
>	a car by the cabin.  The camera changes viewpoint.  We are now
>	down at the cabin and the same woman is looking up at the ridge
>	straining to see the person standing beside the car!
>	I remember that, at the cabin there is quite a bit of suspense and
>	violence.  I think that the woman thinks that here husband is trying
>	to kill her.  But it is not clear that he is.  Finally she drives
>	back to the city.  On the way there, she sees her husband in the road
>	and runs over him.  Getting back to the flat, however, he is there!
>
>	Cast:
>	I *think* the woman is played by Susananh York.  Im guessing the 
>	man is Perter Finch?
>
>	Title:  I *think* it was a single word.  Something like
>	"Illusions" or  something.
>
>	Release date: maybe late 1970's.
>
>	Not much to go on, huh?  Well go to it.  Someone out there has
>	seen this and remembers it or maybe *Im* the one going crazy.

	The title of this film is "Images."  It was directed by
Robert Altman (most recently directed _The Player_.).  It is
fascinating and frightening.  I saw it in a "Art of Film" class
I took a couple of years ago.  John Williams did the music.
	An interesting thing about this film is that it has a very
limited cast (four or five people, as I recall) and the names of
the actual actors are switched around to provide the names of the
characters.  There was also a running thread through the film of
a story about a unicorn.  This story was written by the lead
actress, who I also think was Sussanah York.  I think that this
film allowed for a lot of improvisation and experimentation on
the part of both the cast and crew.
	I think it was released in 1973.  Is it available on
video?  I'd love to see it again!

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