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1 day ago · Robert Bernard Altman (/ ˈ ɔː l t m ə n / AWLT-mən; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era.
Jun 21, 2024 · Robert Altman, unconventional and independent American film director, whose works emphasize character and atmosphere over plot in exploring themes of innocence, corruption, and survival. Among his major works are M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Robert Altman - Filmmaker, Maverick, Innovator: By the early 1980s the American film industry had begun its obsession with big-concept blockbuster films, and Altman’s direction of Paramount’s big-budget musical Popeye (1980), with Robin Williams in the title role, seemed to have kept the filmmaker in the Hollywood mainstream.
- Michael Barson
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5 days ago · Two Women: Early Films of Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall, a nine-film series running from Friday through next Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will open with the one feature starring both of them, Robert Altman’s 3 Women (1977).
2 days ago · Imagine the portion of a Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson ensemble-style picture that’s just three hours of introductions, that never gets to the portion of the film where the plotlines intersect and interweave. Costner himself doesn’t show up until an hour into the movie.
1 day ago · Robert Altman's depiction of Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe who is a 1940s anachronism living in the 70s who helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
Jun 20, 2024 · Altman’s roving camera and “hyperlink” style of storytelling unify the characters’ diverse stories, painting a portrait of America’s fragmented psyche post-Watergate. At once a satire, a drama, and a musical, Nashville is both a culmination of Altman’s freewheeling style, an exploration of complex characters, and one of the greatest ...
