Images (1972) from Tuna

Images (1972) was a total mystery to me after watching it. Thank goodness there was a featurette on the DVD with Writer/Director Robert Altman. I learned that we are seeing life through the eyes of a schizophrenic (Susannah York). Nothing we see in the movie can be assumed to be real, but she may be married, writing a children's book about unicorns, and staying in a vacation home with her husband. When she is not using voice-over to recite the book she is writing, she is having encounters with herself, her French lover who dies in an airplane crash, and other men.

Even had I understood the ending, I probably wouldn't give it away, since many people like this mind-fuck film, and you might decide to see it.
 

IMDB readers score it 7.1 of 10, with very few votes below a 7, so it seems that Altman achieved his vision for this film. Many people think it was a great vision, but I am not among them. This is high on the list of films I will never see again.

Scoop's notes in yellow:

Some genuine surprises for me here.

I have seen way more than my share of movies, and was a devoted Robert Altman fan in the early 70s. Not only have I never seen Images, but I had never even heard of this film until Tuna reviewed it. Amazingly, Altman made this in between McCabe and Mrs Miller and The Long Goodbye, two films I liked a lot and queued up to see in theaters back in the days when I went to see every Altman movie.

Images was even nominated for an Oscar (musical score), and I still had not heard of it.

So what happened with this one and the box office, and why hasn't it been on home media before?

Reportedly, the film's original negative was burned by Columbia Pictures. Accidentally. Maybe. Altman himself expressed great surprise that a print was obtained by the Cleveland Cinematheque for an Altman retrospective in 2001!

Not only was I surprised to see the film on DVD, but I was not previously aware of the very clear Susannah York full frontal nudity!