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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]