Robert Altman's movies are so unique, you kind of just have to watch a lot of them to see what you like. I find them to be polarizing, and when I force friends to watch them, I feel like everyone ...

Late New Hollywood legend Robert Altman (Gosford Park, M*A*S*H), late master of violence Sam Peckinpah, and Dogme 95, the Danish avant-garde movement led by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas ...

No one has ever made a good movie,” said Robert Altman. He had, of course, made a dozen or so great ones himself – Nashville, M*A*S*H, Gosford Park among them – and many others that are, by most ...

Robert Altman has never been a director who confined himself to just one particular genre, as his body of work includes neo-noir movies, war films, revisionist westerns, and various dramas. One genre ...

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 ...

A detailed look into the process of filming of Robert Altman's masterpiece "Short Cuts". The great ensemble cast composed of 22 actors, Raymond Carver's widow, few members of the crew and Altman ...

Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould in director Robert Altman's 1970 film "M*A*S*H." (Courtesy Brattle Theatre) Other directors tell stories. Robert Altman explored ecosystems. No filmmaker more ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This week, The Times published a series of articles looking at possible different futures ...

As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, “What’s your favorite movie?” For decades, I’ve given the same answer. But in the last 10 years or so, when I say, “My favorite movie ...

The director’s 1975 epic American comedy is set amid the buzz of a music biz town. Fifty years later, it sounds timely and alive. Starts with a crash, ends with a bang. In between, Robert Altman’s ...

Tim Robbins in The Player Image via Fine Line Features While Hollywood was a much different place in 1992, the industry was plagued by many of the same issues it is facing today. Currently, those ...