Altman
Rating: 6.8/1108 Plot Summary:
The life of Robert Altman over the course of his career as a filmmaker is told in roughly chronological order. It is presented largely through archival footage, including of his interviews and of his and his longtime wife Kathryn Reed's home movies. It includes his rocky start in Hollywood as an aspiring screenwriter, which instead led to him working as a general filmmaker for an industrial film company. This work led to directing assignments for a number of television series back in Hollywood, where he butted heads with a number of studio executives and producers who did not appreciate his style of filmmaking in his desire to insert a sense a realism in whatever the project, that realism which includes hanging story-lines and overlapping dialogue, often in multiple equally important conversations in a single setting which forces the viewer to decide which conversation he/she wants to focus. This situation often led to him trying to achieve what he wanted either in not telling or …
Director: Ron Mann
Running time: 1h 36min
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Release date: 16 October 2014 (Italy)
Cast: Michael Murphy, Robert Altman, Kathryn Reed, Sally Kellerman, James Caan, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Dick Cavett, Tommy Thompson, Vilmos Zsigmond, Matthew Reed Altman, Stephen Altman, Keith Carradine, Richard Nixon
