Robert Altman
I Remember Altman: Inclusive, Imposing American Dreamer
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Robert Altman in 1974.
It seemed, on that hot, hazy spring day in 1974, as though the entire population of Nashville had tu read more »
A Brief Encounter With Robert Altman
Ten days before he died, I met Robert Altman at a party in New York for his friend Gore Vidal's new book. I was on a couch and he was in an armchair when a friend started telling him how much Nashville had meant, how it had defined the spirit of that era. Altman looked at her and nodded once, but didn't want to play. He was too wise, or ironical. He wanted to talk about real stuff now, about having to go to the doctor 15 times a week and about the big problem with old age being to figure out what to do with yourself. When I said he could chase girls, he said, "Oh you can do that, but the only problem is what if you catch one."
He had a wry smile and I got to teasing him. "How often have you gone to a party and met someone and said, 'I really like that guy's energy, I got to have him in my next film?'"
"Never."
"Come on Bob, work with me. Where do you want the sideburns? Here or here?"
He laughed. "I got something for you—you can be a driver."
Now when I read the obits I see the guy I met that night, someone natural and warm and sly, who didn't take himself too seriously.
Robert Altman, 1925-2006
Film director Robert Altman passed away last night, around midnight, in Los Angeles, according to publicist Bobby Zarem. Mr. Altman, 81, had been admitted to the hospital on Friday. He received a heart transplant in the mid-1990s, according to his Oscar speech this year.
Altman’s Prairie: Woe Be Gone!
Vince Valitutti
Second Review: Liev Schreiber in The Omen.
The jabbering, meandering and ossified movie that Robert Altman has made from Garrison Keillor&rsquo read more »
Altman's Prairie: Woe Be Gone!
The jabbering, meandering and ossified movie that Robert Altman has made from Garrison Keillor’s l read more »
Buñuel Peeps Through Keyholes- A Cubist Vision of Deneuve
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based read more »
DVD’s, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables
She’s a Three-Faced WomanThe Three Faces of Eve is notable today in its DVD reincarnation for the read more »
Altman's Love for Ballet Makes for a Serious Misstep
The Company , Robert Altman's new ballet film, is a sharp reminder of how one can forget to be grate read more »
The Academy Goes One Way; I'll Go for Zellweger, Lynch
The Academy Award nominees for 2001 reflect a growing eccentricity that amounts to a jumbled consens read more »
A Patented Directorial Dexterity Shapes Altman's New Whodunit
Robert Altman's Gosford Park , from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes, based upon an idea by Mr. read more »
Cruise and Cruz: Cold Chemistry
Dress for depression. read more »
A Dirty Little Movie That Doesn't Do It for Me
Philip Kaufman's Quills , from a screenplay by Doug Wright based upon his play, has taken so many li read more »
Ladies Who Love Gere … Tryout for Vietnam
Ladies Who Love GereThe swallows may not be coming back to Capistrano, but one by one the film-festi read more »
The Ear Is the Colon Of the Future
Friday, April 17. read more »
Phantoms: A Silly Spook Show … Kenneth Branagh: From Hamlet to Hellbent
Affleck's Lousy;(11)O'Toole's Soused Several otherwise serious people disgrace themselves in a stupi read more »
To Distrust of Human Nature, Add Heaping Hatred of Lawyers
Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man , from a screenplay by Al Hayes, based on an original story by J read more »
