Countdown (1967)
Dec 15, 2001Expedition to the Moon
An early Robert Altman film about the planning and launch of a Moon Landing starring then unknown James Caan and Robert Duvall. The most realistic depiction of a space launch up to that point.
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Brewster McCloud (1971)
Mar 10, 2004Gonzo Comedy/Man Builds Wings/Angelic Intervention
One of the most eccentric and strangest films in the oeuvre of Robert Altman in which Bud Cort set out to build a set of wings to fly, amid aid from angels and lots of bird symbolism
Images (1972)
Oct 28, 2000Identity Blurring/Surrealism
A fascinatingly enigmatic work from Robert Altman, an artily experimental film in which the identities of five people together at a countryside cottage begin to shift and blur
3 Women (1977)
May 31, 2017Cryptic Identity Exchange
The great Robert Altman was one of the most individualistic and downright eccentric American directors. His most head-scratching efforts were when he experimented in genre cinema like this cryptic and baffling work in which three (mainly two) women appear to exchange identities
Quintet (1979)
Jul 4, 2003Frozen Future/Enigmatic Game
The great Robert Altman's most frustrating film set around an enigmatic dice game in a frozen future
Popeye (1980)
Apr 19, 2007Gonzo Comic-Strip Adaptation
Robert Altman's adaptation of the Popeye comic-strip starring Robin Williams has become widely regarded as a turkey but Altman's eccentricity makes for a by no means unenjoyable film
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Feb 19, 2024Backstage at a Radio Variety Show
The final film from the great Robert Altman set backstage at a radio variety show as an angel of death wanders through