A look at the life and work of American filmmaker Robert Altman.
It's a warm and insightful profile of the man and his movies that inevitably leaves you wanting to revisit some of his classics, or watch them for the very first time.
Mann’s ultimately fluffy film is irritatingly uninterested in the breadth of Altman's art.
A laudable introduction for anyone yet to experience the joys of Nashville, M*A*S*H, Short Cuts or The Player.
A range of star witnesses contribute to this warm documentary on the groundbreaking creator of films from Nashville to Gosford Park.
A perfect introduction to a great American film-maker.
A dutiful documentary about maverick filmmaker Robert Altman.
The fascinating career of director Robert Altman is reduced to platitudes in this frustrating documentary.
It is the defiant and playful spirit in which the work was made as much as the work itself which this documentary celebrates.
A depressingly conventional exploration of American cinema’s most fearless rebel.
Robert Altman: the genius who 'reinvented the language of cinema'
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