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For Altman's only biographer, Patrick McGilligan, it's one of the primary themes of the director's life and work, which he hammers home in his monumental 652-page book "Robert Altman, Jumping off ...

The seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind M*A*S*H and Gosford Park, who would have turned 100 this year, changed how we watch—and hear—movies.

Robert Altman at 100: The enduring legacy of ‘the pirate king of American filmmaking’ - INSIDE FILM: The pioneering director would have celebrated his 100th birthday this month. Louis Chilton ...

Robert Altman, the quintessentially independent movie director famous for such visionary films as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville" and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," died Monday in Los Angeles of complications ...

With overlapping dialogue and a drifting camera to create the impression of real life, the hip Robert Altman made unmistakable films.

He moves slowly. His posture is slumped. But when it comes to making movies, 80-year-old Robert Altman has a young man’s fire. The director recently completed shooting a movie based on humorist ...

On the surface, Robert Altman was a filmmaker of rare eclecticism. Few could equal his range in attending to seemingly every major cinematic genre. Over the course of his career, Altman dabbled in ...

Robert Altman's involvement and a fistfight with studio executives derailed the production of the film adaptation of the novel Maiden. Maiden was a potential opportunity for a rare women-directed ...

Director will be remembered as brave and defiant, which is the way he pursued his life’s work in an unforgiving and often nonsensical business.