Movies: Robert Altman

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals....

Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four’s Cinefile seri...

Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets....

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene....

Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location....

A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts....

The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area....

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal lif...

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other....

A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up ...

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter....

Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992)....

Interviews with Robert Altman and Elliott Gould about The Long Goodbye (1973)...

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers....

On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events....

Short humorous snippets of marijuana use....

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the first volume of Bliss, a playlist of sounds and shapes. Daedalus delves into the perilous dance betwee...

A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down....

Robert Altman recounts the life of his wife Kathryn Reed, using the format of a documentary, with funny reenactments played by Reed's friends and family....

Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it....