Robert Altman
Also Known As: Robert B. Altman, Robert Bernard Altman , 로버트 알트만, 로버트 알트먼, رابرت آلتمن
Biography: Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 20, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 20, 2006
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Nothing Like a Dame
Overview: BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Return to Sweethaven: A Look Back With Robin And The Altmans
Overview: A look at the making of Popeye(1980) featuring interviews with Robert Altman, Stephen Altman, and Robin Williams
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Overview: Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Overview: This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Psycho" and "The Birds". The movie also covers his television years and neatly examines the Hitchcock signature touches, from his inevitable brief cameo to his famous MacGuffin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-13
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Endless Love
Overview: As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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The Kathryn Reed Story
Overview: Robert Altman recounts the life of his wife Kathryn Reed, using the format of a documentary, with funny reenactments played by Reed's friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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Looking for Sophia
Overview: Looking for Sophia is a documentary about Loren's remarkable life and career, featuring rare newsreel footage, highlights from her films, and insights from her friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Robert Altman in England
Overview: Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes footage and information about his career leading up to this feature.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-03
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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Overview: On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Overview: Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-05
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Overview: A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-16
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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Altman
Overview: Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Imagining Images
Overview: A made for DVD extras documentary about the making of Robert Altman’s film Images.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-16
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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well as Richard Zanuck, who was head of production for 20th Century Fox at the time, and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-08
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Words in Progress
Overview: Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In
Overview: Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four’s Cinefile series.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-17
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Made in the USA
Overview: A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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What Is Cinema?
Overview: Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Daedalus
Overview: "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the first volume of Bliss, a playlist of sounds and shapes. Daedalus delves into the perilous dance between striving for something and the suffocating pull of stagnancy. This chaotic structure bridges the warnings and epiphanic thoughts of 20th-century thinkers with the lives of today's dreamers.
Genres: Music Mystery Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-17
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A Decade Under the Influence
Overview: A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau
Overview: Director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau discuss their collaboration on Tanner ‘88 in a conversation recorded in June 2004.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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Robert Altman's Players
Overview: Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Events
Overview: Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out sexually experimental film made in the sixties or seventies."--Bruce Williamson, Playboy
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Hollywood Mavericks
Overview: A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese..
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Overview: A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-26
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Overview: A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Robert Altman on 'Rashomon'
Overview: Interview with director Robert Altman about "Rashomon."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-26
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Rip Van Marlowe
Overview: Interviews with Robert Altman and Elliott Gould about The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Long Goodbye
Overview: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Overview: A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-18
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What’s Happened Since ‘88
Overview: A discussion of how the world has changed since Tanner ‘88.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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The Politics of Docs
Overview: A look at the subjects of Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Why Tanner, Why Now?
Overview: A look at the inspiration behind Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Fact & Fiction
Overview: A look at the blending of fact and fiction in Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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On the Set: Alex’s Loft
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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On the Set: Loews Theater
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-23
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Altman on His Own Terms
Overview: A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry with countless films examines some of his most important works, along with friends and regular collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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