A Prairie Home Companion (2006): "How you best say goodbye to the people you love is dictated by how you best lived with them."

Notes: Sweet, sad, and perfect as Robert Altman's last film. I once heard an interview where he said "I always saw making a movie as a good excuse to gather a group of friends" or something like that. Now I see what his attachment to PHC was, a repretory company surrounding a benevolent father figure in the truest sense. Just as it's difficult to imagine to imagine public radio without Garrison Keillor, I never thought there wouldn't be another Robert Altman movie. Keillor will be gone someday to, we all will. It's why this movie ends, quiet and beautiful, with these lines.

There’s a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there.

In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.