Robert Altman
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50 Best Movies About America of the Past 50 Years
From 'All the President's Men' to 'The Godfather,' 'Boyhood' to 'Boyz n the Hood' — the movies that have reflected the American experiment back to us on the screen for the past half century
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Karen Black Always Wanted to Make an Album. Years After Her Death, It's Here
How the 'Nashville' star and 1970s icon's collection of country/folk-pop songs finally got to see the light of day
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Revisiting Hours: 'Short Cuts,' Altman and the Anti-'Life Itself'
This week's column looks back at Robert Altman's epic Angeleno character study that set the template for how to do we're-all-connected dramas right
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How Leonard Cohen's Music Turned 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' Into a Masterpiece
Why the collaboration between singular songwriter and maverick filmmaker Robert Altman remains the perfect Cohen movie soundtrack
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Flashback: Robert Altman's 'Nashville' Angers Country Stars
Filmed on location, the 1975 film created an uproar in Music City songwriting circles
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Sex, Drugs & Country: Behind the Scenes of 'Nashville'
Exclusive photos of Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere & the cast of country music's small screen diary
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Robert Altman: Legendary Director With a Rebel Spirit
From his last ever interview: Altman on working with Hitchcock, fighting with Warren Beatty and why "A Prairie Home Companion" is about death
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Robert Altman, R.I.P.
The legendary director Robert Altman — auteur of MASH, Nashville, and Gosford Park, among other inimitable ensemble flicks — has died at 81. As MASH, his thinly veiled critique of the Vietnam war, proved, he was a deeply political man. Even in his later years: "Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that […]
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A Prairie Home Companion
Director Robert Altman thinks it's about death. Writer Garrison Keillor thinks it's a light comedy. They're both right. But this screen take on Keillor's three-decades-running public-radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, is something else as well: a delectable antidote to the hard-sell sideshow of Hollywood. Prairie goes down so easy that you probably won't notice […]
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The Company
Some audiences see this one-of-a-kind spellbinder and complain that there's no plot. What they mean is there's none of the usual soap-opera bull you find in ballet films from The Turning Point to Center Stage. Neve Campbell — yes, the Scream queen — not only acts and dances in the film, she sparked the project. […]
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