Robert Altman

I forgot to mention this earlier, but tonight / tomorrow morning at 3:15 AM EST on Turner Classic Movies, they are showing Robert Altman's little seen first film THE DELINQUENTS. This isn't a typical Altman film, more of a B-movie he directed. But it should be of interest to his fans.  

“Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’” is a popular little show that has been playing at the Metropolitan Room on the first Sunday each month.  

ALTMAN MONTH The films of Robert Altman will be featured at 6:30 p.m. Mondays and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays in November in the Film Vault of the KC Central Library. Admission is free.  

In an L.A. Times review of the new Robert Altman biography, Richard Schickel went on an attack on Altman and his films.He writes of Altman: "When he was not drinking heavily, he was smoking dope -- often doing both simultaneously"He writes of the author Mitchel Zuckoff, "Zuckoff basically knows nothing about filmmaking and film history"So, it wasn't a positive review.The L.A. Times Hollywood blog has a story on it, and Alan Rudolph's...  

This week our daily reviewed were royal, revolutionary, copyright-y, post-Nobel-laureate-y and about a revolutionary Oscar-winner. Here's a taste. Of William Shawcross’ "The Queen Mother: The Official Biography," Patt Morrison writes: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother lived to be 101. On...  

A weatherman. That's what Robert Altman might have become had he pursued meteorology, an early interest in life. "I liked the idea of how the different cooling levels of a lake affect the atmosphere," the late film director tells Mitchell Zuckoff in "Robert...  

"[H]e was a pilot at the tag end of the Pacific war, a member of a crew, and someone who survived great peril in flimsy aircraft. It made a gambler out of him - or someone who declined to be as responsible as others."...  

I've spent the weekend with Mitchell Zuckoff's (he did that Ponzi biography of a while back) latest, an "oral biography" of the great director, bon vivant and "family" filmmaker Robert Altman. The book is a positively "Altmanesque" treatment of the...  

A new biography of Kansas City native film director Robert Altman has one bombshell political revelation: Altman once tattooed a dog owned by President Harry S. Truman. The New York Times’ review of the book notes it in passing and Slate’s Brow Beat blog has all the details.  

Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of groundbreaking films such as “M*A*S*H,’’ “Nashville,’’ “Short Cuts,’’ and “The Player,’’ never met a Hollywood executive he trusted. Throughout his career, Altman (and his crews) maintained an “us against them’’ mentality about the studios who financed his films. Even in his younger days in television, director Altman pushed the boundaries with his trademark dark ...  

You know 20th Century Fox used to be a pretty good studio. It’s hard to believe with all the crap they release these days, but there was a time when people used to get excited about the 20th Century fanfare. Back when they worked with artists, back when they seem to be after something more [...]  

One of the early voices in the excellent new Robert Altman "oral biography" by Mitchell Zuckoff is a filmmaker who is no stranger to central Florida film crews. Reza Badiyi spent most of his career in the medium where he...  

Recommended Frankly, I roll my eyes every time another "hyperlink film" is released. The style that was developed and perfected by Robert Altman was brought to its nadir with the release of the awful Crash (2004), winner of the Oscar for Best Picture. Although the hyperlink originally grew from Altman's journalistic approach and is not without its place as cinematic storytelling continues to...  

He first truly surprised anybody who knew him from his first TV fame (Laugh-In) with his roles in Robert Altman films, most notably that memorable turn as a Conway Twitty/Merle Haggard presence at the heart of Altman's country music, showbiz...  

Larry Gelbart, who created the classic TV adaptation of Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" and whose talented comedy writing stretched from the days of radio to cutting-edge cable shows, died at his home in Beverly Hills Friday morning. He was 81. He had been ...