Robert Altman and Brief Encounter
Robert Altman, the film director, was a young man just out of the service when he went one day to see this film. It was an English film and it wasn't like any film he had ever seen. The first thing he noticed was that the main actress wasn't at all a 'babe' and the story absurdly simple. He almost walked out after twenty minutes but soon was swept up into the story and admits that by the end of the film, tears were pouring down his face. He says this is the first moment he really understood what a film could be. Great films make other great film happen.
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