Robert Altman (1996) Kansas City

The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and

organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate

story is triggered by petty thief Johnny O'Hara (Dermot Mulroney), who aims for a big score by trying to rob notorious

crime boss Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), only to end up Seen's captive. In fear for her husband's life, Johnny's wife

Blondie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) decides to take action. Following an eccentric personal logic, she takes as a hostage the wife

of a prominent local politician, in hopes of getting the woman's husband to help; unfortunately, he is on the road with an

upcoming presidential campaign, putting a major hitch in Blondie's plans. The film moves freely among its idiosyncratic

characters in an overt attempt to mimic the improvisational structure of 1930s jazz. Indeed, many of the film's most

important sequences take place in Seldom Seen's club, with contemporary jazz greats imitating the period's master

musicians and Harry Belafonte shining as the magnetic, menacing Seen. The central narrative never achieves the seemingly

effortless integration of Altman's greatest works, but those who share Altman's obvious passion for the period and its

music will find much to admire.
General
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
Bit rate : 1553 Kbps
StreamSize : 7.70 MiB
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release
IAS1 : English / English
Video #0
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec/Info : XviD project
Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1
Codec settings/PacketBitStream : No
Codec settings/BVOP : Yes
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matrix : Custom
Bit rate : 1425 Kbps
Width : 672 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.229
Audio #1
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
Bit rate : 119 Kbps
Bit rate mode : VBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Writing library : LAME3.97b
Encoding settings : ABR

IMDB: tt0116745

English audio, no subtitles