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Robert Altman
Robert Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1925. After a long apprenticeship in industrial films and TV, Altman had his first big hit with MASH (1970) which features scenes with overlapping dialogue from a large cast of characters, a feature common to the majority of his most critically successful films such as Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993) and Gosford Park (2001).
He received a heart transplant in the mid 1990s but continued working until shortly before his death from complications of Leukaemia in 2006. His final film was A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
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Robert Altman to get honorary Oscar -
12 January 2006
The legendary director Robert Altman is to be given an honorary Oscar in recognition of his achievements in film. - -During his career Altman has directed 37 films and written 16 of them but has never won an Oscar, despite being nominated five times for M.A.S.H., Nashv
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Robert Altman - filmography
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A Prairie Home Companion
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Meryle Streep, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan
Director: Robert Altman
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In director Robert Altman's final masterpiece, "A Prairie Home Companion" tells the tale of a much loved US radio show still surviving in the age of television. Garrison Keillor joins forces with an all star cast in this tale of the last ever live recording of one of America's broadcasting ..read more »
 
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant
Director: Robert Altman
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In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
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from 16,401 members
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Doctor T. And The Women
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Helen Hunt, Richard Gere, Shelley Long
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman follows up the good-natured COOKIE'S FORTUNE with this biting satire of an upper-class elitist Dallas community. Richard Gere plays Sullivan 'Sully' Travis (better known as Dr. T), a man whose good looks and overflowing charm have made him the most popular gynecologist in all of Texas...read more »
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Cookie's Fortune
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman revisits the lighthearted territory of his 1970s comedies BREWSTER MCCLOUD and A WEDDING and once again comes out a rousing success. This time, a tightly wound narrative by first-time screenwriter Anne Rapp keeps the laughs rolling as the story unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend ..read more »
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from 698 members
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The Gingerbread Man
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman throws his chips into the film noir ring with this stylish, moody thriller that features a spot-on performance by Kenneth Branagh as Rick Magruder, a successful Savannah, Georgia lawyer. After a party celebrating a major victory, he offers Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz), a shy waitress ..read more »
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Pret A Porter
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
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Short Cuts
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Madeline Stowe
Director: Robert Altman
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Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls ..read more »
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from 4,626 members
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Luck, Trust and Ketchup - The Making of ...
on DVD
(1993)
Director: Mike Kaplan, John Dorr
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This documentary takes the viewer behind the scenes of the making of the Robert Altman film SHORT CUTS. Based on a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, the movie chronicles the triumphs and failures of ordinary people. The documentary presents interviews with the cast, the director, and ..read more »
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from 32 members
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The Player
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
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from 5,856 members
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Vincent And Theo
(1990)
Starring: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Director: Robert Altman
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A blistering, unsentimental portrait of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, Robert Altman's VINCENT AND THEO focuses on the deeply neurotic relationship between the unstable, impoverished Vincent (Tim Roth) and his art dealer brother, Theo (Paul Rhys). Specifically, the film investigates the ..read more »
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from 505 members
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Beyond Therapy
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson
Director: Robert Altman
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Prudence is a conservative and slightly mixed up young woman who thinks Bruce is crazy. Bruce is bi-sexual and in love with Prudence. Her therapist is more interested in scoring with his patients than in treating their problems, Bruce's therapist is worse; and these are just the surface confusions.
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from 57 members
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Fool For Love
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid
Director: Robert Altman
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Dramatic story of the complex, passionate relationship between a cowboy drifter and his long-time love. Set in barren New Mexico, in the neon-lit confines of the seedy El Royale motel.
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from 110 members
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Secret Honor
(1984)
Starring: Philip Baker Hall
Director: Robert Altman
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A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
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from 7 members
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Streamers
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Director: Robert Altman
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Award-winning story of four young recruits and two veterans living in an army barracks, awaiting transfer orders to Vietnam. Finding their lives threatened by forces beyond their control they lash out at each other in desperate acts of violence and bloodshed.
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from 99 members
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Quintet
(1979)
Starring: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey
Director: Robert Altman
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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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Buffalo Bill And The Indians
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey
Director: Robert Altman
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Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause. Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) sardonically explores the gap between western history and legend in show biz-obsessed ..read more »
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from 278 members
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Nashville
(1975)
Starring: David Arkin, Barbara Baxley
Director: Robert Altman
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In the wake of JFK's assassination, under the shadow of the Vietnam war, an independent presidential candidate is running, bold and cheap, under the banner of the Replacement Party: their unbelievable platform includes banning lawyers from Congress and re-writing the national anthem.
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from 490 members
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California Split
(1974)
Starring: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss
Director: Robert Altman
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Bill (George Segal) doesn't have much to lose; he's recently single and will soon be unemployed. He meets his pal Charlie (Elliott Gould) in an LA card house, and the two pair up when they find they make an excellent gambling team. The two embark on a breakneck gambling spree, beginning at Charlie'..read more »
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from 19 members
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The Long Goodbye
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Jim Bouton
Director: Robert Altman
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Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a relatively unsuccessful private eye living and working in 1970s Los Angeles. Stepping into the ..read more »
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from 3,178 members
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Images
(1972)
Starring: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
Director: Robert Altman
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Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
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from 25 members
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McCabe And Mrs Miller
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Corey Fischer, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
Director: Robert Altman
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A haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture concerning love and the pursuit of wealth in early America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in ..read more »
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M.A.S.H.
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Director: Robert Altman
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Widely considered to be one of the best comedies ever made. The story focusses on surgeons during the Korean War and their madcap antics to degrade the U.S. military bureaucracy. A Best Screenplay Oscar went to Ring Lardner Jr.
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from 7,621 members
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The James Dean Story
on DVD
Starring: James Dean, Marcus Winslow Jr., Arlene Martel
Director: Robert Altman
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A star profile which looks at the people and the places that Dean knew. Also an insight into the confusion felt by the teenagers of the day. Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and a clip from the theatrical trailer for the film 'Rebel Without Cause'.
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Robert Altman facts
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...In which Robert Altman tries his hand at a standard John Grisham thriller with middling results. There's not much wrong with the story per se, with lawyer Branagh thinking w...
