In this video discussion recorded in June 2004, director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau reminisce about their shared political interests and successful collaboration on the groundbreaking series TANNER ’88.
This interview, in which director Robert Altman discusses THE PLAYER and the Hollywood film industry, was recorded in New York in December 1992.
Friends of Robert and Kathryn Altman reminisce about their unique New York home.
Directed by Robert Altman • 1984 • United States
Starring Philip Baker Hall
Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1992 • United States
Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry ...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1976 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy
Robert Altman directs a dynamic ensemble cast—including Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Shelley Duvall—in this subversive revisionist western. Although Buffalo Bill...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1996 • United States
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
Returning to his birthplace for inspiration, maverick director Robert Altman helms an evocative, bullet-riddled tribute to the music and movies of his youth in KANSAS CITY, a Depre...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1982 • United States
Starring Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black
Twenty years after James Dean’s death, a group of former superfans in rural Texas—not far from where the movie star shot his final film, GIANT—gather in an old Woolworth’s five-and-dime store to celebrate h...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1984 • United States
Starring Philip Baker Hall
Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1992 • United States
Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry ...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1976 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy
Robert Altman directs a dynamic ensemble cast—including Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Shelley Duvall—in this subversive revisionist western. Although Buffalo Bill...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1996 • United States
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
Returning to his birthplace for inspiration, maverick director Robert Altman helms an evocative, bullet-riddled tribute to the music and movies of his youth in KANSAS CITY, a Depre...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1982 • United States
Starring Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black
Twenty years after James Dean’s death, a group of former superfans in rural Texas—not far from where the movie star shot his final film, GIANT—gather in an old Woolworth’s five-and-dime store to celebrate h...
“Child’s Play”
Directed by Robert Altman • 1988 • United States
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media ...
“For Real”
Directed by Robert Altman • 1988 • United States
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media camp...
This commentary, featuring director Robert Altman, was recorded in 1992.
Jeff Smith walks us through Robert Altman’s most intricately allusive film, a satire that enlists genre tropes in order to send up the Hollywood assembly line that spits them out.
“The Reality Check”
Directed by Robert Altman • 1988 • United States
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their m...
