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Robert Altman

Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.

His films MASH, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs. Miller have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Movies Made By Robert Altman (67)

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. ...

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The Company (2003)

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer. ...

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Gosford Park (2001)

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect. ...

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Dr. T & the Women (2000)

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife's breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter's conspiracy theories, and his secretary's crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in ...

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Trixie (2000)

Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino, working undercover keeping an eye out for pickpockets. Trixie meets an assortment of colorful regulars: ...

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Gun: Fatal Betrayal (2000)

Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it. ...

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Cookie's Fortune (1999)

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends. ...

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Killer App (1998)

About battles in the computer world of Seattle. ...

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The Gingerbread Man (1998)

A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets. ...

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Afterglow (1997)

Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky's wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love q ...

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Jazz '34 (1997)

A recreation of 1934 Kansas City jazz jam session created by Robert Altman. ...

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Kansas City (1996)

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City. ...

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Prêt-à-Porter (1994)

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another. ...

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. ...

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Short Cuts (1993)

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's gr ...

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Black and Blue: A Musical Revue (1993)

The famous rhythm and blues revue featuring such standards as the title song, "After You've Gone" and "In a Sentimental Mood," to name just a few, and sung by R&B legends Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins and Carrie Smith. ...

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The Player (1992)

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one? ...

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Vincent & Theo (1990)

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two. ...

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". ...

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O.C. and Stiggs (1987)

O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess. ...

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Aria (1987)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria. ...

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Basements (1987)

Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location. ...

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Beyond Therapy (1987)

Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their ...

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Fool for Love (1985)

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind. ...

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The Laundromat (1985)

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets. ...

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Secret Honor (1984)

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and ...

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Streamers (1983)

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay. ...

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion. ...

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Precious Blood (1982)

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other. ...

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Rattlesnake in a Cooler (1982)

A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down. ...

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Popeye (1980)

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first cont ...

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HealtH (1980)

At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair. ...

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Rich Kids (1979)

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings. ...

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A Perfect Couple (1979)

An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite. ...

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Quintet (1979)

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives. ...

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A Wedding (1978)

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Din ...

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Remember My Name (1978)

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife. ...

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3 Women (1977)

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates. ...

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The Late Show (1977)

Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat. ...

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Welcome to L.A. (1976)

The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, ...

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer. ...

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Nashville (1975)

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

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California Split (1974)

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While ...

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Thieves Like Us (1974)

Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways. ...

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. ...

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Images (1972)

While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger. ...

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene. ...

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Brewster McCloud (1970)

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others wh ...

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M*A*S*H (1970)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. ...

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That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her posse ...

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Countdown (1967)

Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year. ...

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The Happening (1967)

A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demoni ...

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The Kathryn Reed Story (1965)

Robert Altman recounts the life of his wife Kathryn Reed, using the format of a documentary, with funny reenactments played by Reed's friends and family. ...

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Pot au feu (1964)

Short humorous snippets of marijuana use. ...

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Nightmare in Chicago (1964)

The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area. ...

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The Party (1963)

A "home movie" by Robert Altman shot at his house in Mandeville Canyon. ...

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The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley (1963)

20 years after a Second World War court-martial, a vet pulls a gun on the ruthless attorney who defended him, when the cynical mouthpiece, who doesn't even remember his former client, refuses to see him. So the shaken gunman recounts the story of accidenta ...

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The James Dean Story (1957)

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the ow ...

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The Delinquents (1957)

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang. ...

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Corn's-a-Poppin' (1956)

A popcorn company hopes to boost sales with a live TV program featuring Western swing music, but the hustler hired to assemble the production is secretly in the employ of the company's competitor, and is also trying to sabotage it. ...

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The Magic Bond (1956)

The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fraternal and social organization, with emphasis on their projects that benefit community life and cohesion. ...

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The Model's Handbook (1956)

A promotional film for Ford's Model Agency, directed by Robert Altman, as a potential television pilot. ...

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The Perfect Crime (1955)

In this short National Safety Council film, the perfect crime is presented as excess speed. Accidents at high speed often results in deaths and are rarely investigated like the robbery of a corner grocery shown at the beginning of the film. The film ends w ...

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The Dirty Look (1954)

The Dirty Look is a 1954 comedy-short film, directed by Robert Altman, with Leonard Belove and William Frawley. Duration 24 minutes. This 1954 film was used by the Gulf Oil Company as a training film on keeping your Gulf Oil filling station clean. ...

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The Sound of Bells (1952)

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Modern Football (1951)

Robert Altman's first film was this 26-minute short, which has a football coach explaining how to play the sport. This is basically an educational short where the viewer learns about the various rules of the sport as the narrator explains them while we see ...

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Bodyguard (1948)

A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation. ...

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Movies Starring Robert Altman (39)

Daedalus (2024)

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the fir ...

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Return to Sweethaven: A Look Back With Robin And The Altmans (2020)

A look at the making of Popeye(1980) featuring interviews with Robert Altman, Stephen Altman, and Robin Williams ...

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Nothing Like a Dame (2018)

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir La ...

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Altman (2014)

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film cl ...

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And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the indu ...

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What Is Cinema? (2013)

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others d ...

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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)

A documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers. ...

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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events. ...

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What’s Happened Since ‘88 (2004)

A discussion of how the world has changed since Tanner '88. ...

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The Politics of Docs (2004)

A look at the subjects of Tanner '88 and Tanner on Tanner. ...

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Why Tanner, Why Now? (2004)

A look at the inspiration behind Tanner on Tanner. ...

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Fact & Fiction (2004)

A look at the blending of fact and fiction in Tanner '88 and Tanner on Tanner. ...

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On the Set: Alex’s Loft (2004)

A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner. ...

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On the Set: Loews Theater (2004)

A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner. ...

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Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau (2004)

Director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau discuss their collaboration on Tanner '88 in a conversation recorded in June 2004. ...

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Looking for Sophia (2004)

Looking for Sophia is a documentary about Loren's remarkable life and career, featuring rare newsreel footage, highlights from her films, and insights from her friends and colleagues. ...

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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television. ...

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Words in Progress (2004)

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals. ...

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Imagining Images (2003)

A made for DVD extras documentary about the making of Robert Altman's film Images. ...

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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time. ...

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The Making of 'Gosford Park' (2002)

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giv ...

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Robert Altman on 'Rashomon' (2002)

Interview with director Robert Altman about "Rashomon. ...

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Robert Altman in England (2002)

Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes footage and information about his career leading up to this feature. ...

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Rip Van Marlowe (2002)

Interviews with Robert Altman and Elliott Gould about The Long Goodbye (1973) ...

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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)

A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well ...

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Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)

This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", " ...

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Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard. ...

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Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In (1996)

Paul Joyce's documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four's Cinefile series. ...

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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies. ...

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Made in the USA (1993)

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene. ...

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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993)

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts. ...

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Robert Altman's Players (1992)

Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992). ...

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Hollywood Mavericks (1990)

A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until ...

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Endless Love (1981)

As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration an ...

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. ...

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Events (1970)

Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out s ...

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The Kathryn Reed Story (1965)

Robert Altman recounts the life of his wife Kathryn Reed, using the format of a documentary, with funny reenactments played by Reed's friends and family. ...

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According ...

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