Robert Altman’s classic 1971 Anti-Western McCABE & MRS. MILLER will be coming to the Criterion Collection on August 9th. Buy from Amazon SYNOPSIS: This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the […]
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Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called Marlowe (1969) starring James Garner in the title role. If you watch both these films back to back you can clearly see the differences. One is […]
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, The Z Channel was a dream come true for lovers of cinema. On Z, you could see every kind of film, from European Arthouse cinema to Hollywood blockbusters. Z was essentially the first pay cable channel to run movies 24 hours a day, well before […]
HealtH (1980) was the film which ended Robert Altman’s relationship with Twentieth Century Fox, the studio for whom he had made M*A*S*H. It came after a decline in box office returns for each of his previous three films for them – A Wedding, Quintet and A Perfect Couple. During the […]
Being a big fan of the late Robert Altman’s work, my goal is to see every film he made in his career. One of the titles that I had heard come up over the years was O.C. and Stiggs (1987). I never did alot of research on the movie and […]