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  • JDS False Start: Robert Altman and The James Dean Story

    Apr 29, 2008

    When is a Robert Altman movie not a Robert Altman movie?

  • 1974 My Favorite Movie Year: 1974

    Dec 07, 2007

    In the first of a five-part series, The A.V. Club's film writers offer their picks for cinema's best-ever years.

  • they live side street Three masters of noir

    Aug 15, 2007

    Three newly released noir DVDS—by Anthony Mann, Fritz Lang, and Nicholas Ray—reveal how master directors made the most out of limited resources.

  • O.C and Stiggs

    My Year Of Flops Case File # 54 O.C. And Stiggs

    Jul 31, 2007

    Is the famous Robert Altman failure really that much of a failure?

  • Jindabyne Jindabyne

    Apr 30, 2007

    A Raymond Carver short story about a fishing trip gone awry was one of several used in Short Cuts, but it gets a feature-length revision in this Australian drama.

  • thieves like us Thieves Like Us

    Apr 25, 2007

    Amid his greatest creative winning streak, director Robert Altman made this underrated masterpiece about outlaws in Depression-era Mississippi.

  • Robert Altman Robert Altman

    Oct 13, 2004

    In the mid-'60s, after Robert Altman quit renting his directorial skills to TV series like Bonanza and Hawaiian Eye, he held...

  • Cookie's Fortune Cookie's Fortune

    Apr 24, 2002

    It would be fair to give director Robert Altman credit for capturing the unique cadences and eccentricities of the Deep South in his new film...

  • Robert Altman Robert Altman

    Aug 02, 2000

    For more than 30 years, Robert Altman has been one of America's leading directors, working at a near-constant pace that has produced, on average,...