'Images'
original film poster
Directed by	Robert Altman
Produced by	Tommy Thompson
Written by	Robert Altman
Starring	Susannah York Rene Auberjonois Marcel Bozzuffi Cathryn Harrison
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films, Hemdale Film Group Ltd., Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 1972 18 December 1972 November 5, 1975
Running time	101 min.
Language	English
Budget	$807,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

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Synopsis

Susannah York in Images.

As the film begins, Cathryn (Susannah York) receive a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests to her that her husband Hugh (Rene Auberjonois) is having an affair. Her husband comes home, finding her in complete disarray. Hugh attempts to comfort her, but then he is gone, and she sees a different man who is behaving as if he were her husband. She screams in horror and backs away, only to see her vision of the figure revert back to her husband. Image File history File links Suzzanah_York_in_Images. ... Image File history File links Suzzanah_York_in_Images. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... For the Swiss painter, see René Auberjonois. ...

Hugh attributes her outburst to stress, and decides to take a vacation to the countryside at an isolated house. But as she dwells there, Cathryn delves into darker delusions as the stranger returns, and she finds it difficult to determine what is reality and what is in her mind.

Cast

York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... For the Swiss painter, see René Auberjonois. ... Marcel Bozzuffi (28 October 1929 - 2 February 1988) was a French film actor. ... Cathryn Harrison (born May 29, 1959) is an English actress. ...

Awards

1972 New York Film Critics Circle - Nominated - Best Actress (Susannah York) New York Film Critics Circle Awards are given annually to honor excellence in cinema worldwide by an organization of film reviewers from New York City-based publications. ...

1972 Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ...

• Won - Best Actress (Susannah York)
• Nominated - Golden Palm (Robert Altman)

1973 Academy Awards - Nominated - Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (John Williams) The Best Actress Award (French: Prix dinterprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. ... The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... For other persons named John Williams, see John Williams (disambiguation). ...

1973 BAFTA Awards - Nominated - Best Cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond) The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Vilmos Zsigmond (born June 16, 1930) is a Hungarian-American cinematographer. ...

1973 Golden Globes - Nominated - Best English-Language Foreign Film The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

1973 Writers Guild of America - Nominated - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen (Robert Altman) The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States. ...

Miscellanea

Susannah York and Rene Auberjonois in Images.

• Reportedly, the film's original negative was burned by Columbia Pictures. This rumor, long believed to be true, has turned out to be false. MGM's home video wing released a DVD in the fall of 2003, apparently from a new print struck from an existing negative.

• Susannah York is accredited for writing the children's story that she reads throughout the film's duration.

• The name of the five main characters are actually taken from the names of the actors who portray them, only having rearranged their names (for example, Susannah York plays the character Cathryn, while Cathryn Harrison plays the character Susannah).

• Film critic Roger Ebert provides some background upon the movie in his review:

Altman shot Images (1972) in Ireland during the wet autumn months of 1971, and premiered it the following May at Cannes. It won Susannah York the award for best actress (it's the role she's most proud of), but left its Cannes audiences mostly confused. It isn't the sort of film you feel affectionate about. It's complex and cold, although not nearly as hard to understand as some of the first reviews suggested. Image File history File links Images_1972_Screenshot_2. ... Image File history File links Images_1972_Screenshot_2. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... For the Swiss painter, see René Auberjonois. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... Cathryn Harrison (born May 29, 1959) is an English actress. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Cannes - receding storm Cannes, as seen from a ferry speeding towards lÎle Saint-Honorat Cannes (pronounced ) (Provençal Occitan: Canas in classical norm or Cano in Mistralian norm) is a city and commune in southern France, located on the Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes département and the r... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ...

Columbia picked up the distribution rights (Altman was a hot property in 1971) and entered Images in the New York Film Festival. Inexplicably, neither of the two principal film critics for the New York Times (Vincent Canby and Roger Greenspan) chose to review it, and it was dismissed in a blistering and largely unperceptive review by Howard Thompson ("a mishmash")^[1]. And that was that. The film never achieved a normal commercial release in America. It had its Chicago-area premiere last February at Northwestern University and its first theatrical 35mm showing last weekend at the Biograph. It undoubtedly will return in one or another repertory series." ^[2] The New York Film Festival is the one of the United Statess most prestigious film festivals, first held in 1962 in New York. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – September 15, 2000) was an American film critic. ... Howard Thompson was a wargame designer and founder of Metagaming Concepts. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a selective private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. ... Located at 2433-43 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, the Biograph Theater is famous because it is the location where bank robber John Dillinger was gunned down by police in 1934. ...

• Roger Ebert went on to describe the film as "an intelligently constructed and spectacularly well-photographed film." ^[2]

• Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide honors the film with ***1/2 out of ****. He describes the film as "difficult but fascinating" and that it may be "off-putting at first, but worth the effort to hang on."

Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Leonard Maltin (born December 18, 1950 in New York City) is a widely known and respected American film critic. ...

See also

• Twist ending
• Schizophrenia
• Surrealism

A twist ending or surprise ending is an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, and which often contains irony or causes the audience to reevaluate the narrative or characters. ... Max Ernst. ...

References

External links

• Images at the Internet Movie Database
• Chicago Sun Times Review of "Images" by Roger Ebert
• New York Times Review of "Images" by Howard Thompson