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Images **** (1972, Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 3293

Susannah York won the Best Actress award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for one of director Robert Altman’s most intriguing but difficult films. It was Golden Globe nominated for 1973 Best English-Language Foreign Film. She […]

Jan, 26

McCabe and Mrs Miller ***** (1971, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois) – Classic Movie Review 2276

Director Robert Altman’s 1971 revisionist view of the Western is atypical of the genre annoyed and so alienated many action fans back in the day and, despite its obvious qualities, was greeted with faint praise. Indeed […]

Mar, 19

Short Cuts ***** (1993, Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 2123

Writer-director Robert Altman’s masterly 1993 take on Los Angeles, re-created from nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, is an ambitious and extraordinary creation. The meeting of two American cult masters is fully the momentous movie occasion […]

Jan, 28

The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2,122

Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry The Player is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the […]

Jan, 27

The Late Show ***** (1977, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Joanna Cassidy, Eugene Roche, John Considine) – Classic Movie Review 2,072

Art Carney lands the part of a lifetime as limping, grumpy private eye Ira Wells, in Robert Benton’s beguiling 1977 neo-noir mystery movie The Late Show. Writer-director Robert Benton (Kramer vs, Kramer) brings all his […]

Jan, 12

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Robert Altman’s revisionist 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe. […]

Nov, 24

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean **** (1982, Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1,760

Cher, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis star in Robert Altman’s stupendous 1982 movie Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the first of his fertile film adaptations of stage plays.   […]

Oct, 11

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