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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.
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2 days ago · In 1980, Popeye leapt to the silver screen, brought to life by director Robert Altman and portrayed by the talented Robin Williams, cementing the character’s legacy in popular culture.
3 days ago · All these actors are working for scale. They have to.”. But that’s what happens when a director casts huge actors in a huge movie. Meryl Streep Robert Altman. Robert Altman has worked with the likes of Warren Beatty, Elliot Gould and David Arkin, but this actor is the one who always brings "25 per cent more".
He's one of my favourite directors, but he was also insanely hit and miss. His misses are basically unwatchable, but when he would get it right, they were some of the best American films ever made. "Thieves like us", "Gosford Park" and to a lesser extent "The Player" are way way too underrated.
Jul 1, 2024 · 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).
