The New Hollywood movement introduced audiences to more than a few memorable filmmakers, from hard-boiled crime directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to genre enthusiasts like Steven ...

Elvis Mitchell hosts multi-award winning director/writer/producer Robert Altman, discussing his film KANSAS CITY and his career-in this rebroadcast of an interview from August, 1996. KANSAS CITY is ...

The classic comedy M*A*S*H had one of the most impressive runs of any TV series. The show, which starred Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers as Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John, two surgeons stationed at the ...

Godford Park, The Long Goodbye, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller are all among the absolute greatest movie masterpieces from the late ...

On the surface, Robert Altman was a filmmaker of rare eclecticism. Few could equal his range in attending to seemingly every major cinematic genre. Over the course of his career, Altman dabbled in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...