The Player

Robert Altman · 1992 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A studio executive who hears thirty pitches a week starts receiving threatening postcards from a writer he brushed off, settles on the man he thinks is sending them and arranges to meet him outside a cinema in Pasadena. Afterwards he must keep taking meetings, court the writer's girlfriend and manage a detective who keeps calling. Altman opened with an eight-minute unbroken take about long takes.

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• alludes to ↑ Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles · 1958 CE · Film

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