Robert Altman

Dan Hoyle, 29, is a native San Franciscan who happens to have been born on the island of Malta. That's where the family was because his father - master clown and noted actor Geoff Hoyle - was working on Robert Altman's film "Popeye" with Robin Williams,... RobinWilliams - Malta - Popeye - Robert Altman - Geoff Hoyle  

Mitchell Zuckoff, author of the newly published “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography,” will discuss the life and career of the Kansas City-born film director in a free presentation Monday. For the book, Zuckoff interviewed more than 200 of Altman’s friends, co-workers, enemies and family members.  

In Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 560 pages, $29.95), Altman tells the author that his motto is "Giggle and give in." But this thick, frustrating book -- ri...  

Like all great improvisers, the late Robert Altman kept a repertoire of stock routines handy. Anyone who’s read multiple interviews with Altman can’t help but note how often the director repeated himself, not with the same personal anecdotes—because Altman was stingy with those—but with the same metaphors and analogies. The biggest problem with Mitchell Zuckoff’s Robert Altman: The Oral Biography is that many Altman fans will have read just...  

Screening of the late director's personal print heralds the donation of his materials to the archive. Director Robert Altman, who died in 2006, always polarized critics and audiences with his maverick, freewheeling, structureless style and determination to reinvent genres.  

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.  

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.  

Slate.com: "In Janet Maslin’s New York Times review of a new oral biography of Robert Altman, an ambiguous portrait emerges of the renegade director. Depending on who’s testifying, Altman comes off as expansive and moody, generous and chiseling, an exacting artist, a freewheeling stoner, a skirt-chasing husband, and a painfully...  

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...  

"[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...  

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 [...]  

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 ...  

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...