Popeye Archives - Bright Lights Film Journal

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Living the Dream: Robert Altman’s Popeye Island

August 14, 2018

An Altman theme park does, in fact, exist. Sweethaven, the set of Altman’s 1980 musical Popeye, lives on in Mellieħa, a village on the island of Malta, where Harry Nilsson’s[…]

Comedy · Music & Musicals

Focus on Robert Altman: Three Takes on Popeye

April 19, 2018

Unassimilated weirdness is typical of Popeye – even in its soundtrack, where goofy “boing” effects are used to accompany ordinary, unheroic movement. Sweethaven’s anthem, the Harry Nilsson song “Everything Is[…]

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