He was one of the most influential and controversial American directors from the New Hollywood era. Robert Altman is the latest subject in Film Streams’ Great Directors series of retrospectives. The ...

Robert Altman was strongly opinionated when it came to cinema, and he absolutely despised one of James Cameron's most popular ...

Huggins bought a stack of old instructional films for $10 at that flea market. He took his time getting around to watching them, but knew he was onto something when he spotted a young Altman making a ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

All you need to know about the woes of the streaming and digital distribution era is that Short Cuts, a signature yet overlooked film by the great Robert Altman, is unavailable to be legally streamed ...

Sometimes the oral biography format delivers big time. Such is the case with Mitchell Zuckoff’s marvelous, epic, tapestry-like life-scape of Robert Altman. The book itself resembles any number of ...

I first met Robert Altman as a college student in the summer of 1973 during a weekend in Tarrytown, New York hosted by the film critic Judith Crist. It was part of a subscription series for local ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. In cinema, a director’s control can show up in oppositional ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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