Player, The (1992) - She's Booked For The Next Two Years

Player, The (1992) -- Nice Boat You Got There

A critical moment, Tim Robbins as studio exec Griffin Mill believes Kahane (Vincent D’Onofrio) is the screenwriter who’s been sending threatening post cards, offers again to buy him off, leading to a scuffle, director Robert Altman shooting outside the still-standing Rialto in South Pasadena, in The Player, 1992.

Player, The (1992) -- Touch Of Evil

Robert Altman’s opening shot runs eight minutes and seven seconds, surpassing the Orson Welles shot from Touch Of Evil, 1956, referred to twice by Fred Ward, and we meet handfuls of studio people, principally Tim Robbins as exe Griffin, and Buck Henry pitching a sequel to his own movie, in The Player, 1992.

Player, The (1992) -- I Hope You Don't Remember Me

Robert Altman has quasi-villain Peter Gallagher leaving and lead Tim Robbins arriving at a chic L-A lunch spot, with a parenthetical use of Burt Reynolds and critic Charles Champlin, the table of studio boss Brion James being ground zero, in a typical episode from his Hollywood satire The Player, 1992.