Robert Altman

...the bottom up. They emerged as resourceful creative collaborators for directors who were also engineering breakthroughs, notably Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafelson, Robert Altman, Brian DePalma and Martin Scorsese. Academy Award...

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...Kid." But its success inspired a whole generation of gifted young filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, William Friedkin, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, John Milius, Brian De Palma and Terrence Malick, to name but a few. In...

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...from Leigh Brackett, and asked Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich to direct it, both refused the offer, but Bogdanovich recommended Robert Altman, who, initially, was uninterested, until allowed to cast Elliott Gould as "Philip Marlowe" -...

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...each of these talented men deal in their own way with the spotlight upon them. Altman simply didn't want to be there and the exchanges were excruciating. Brooks loved it and wouldn't shut up (thankfully, in this case, he was very funny).

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...same year. Both are aching westerns about thwarted dreamers in a shifting world, yet the genre conventions that entrap and destroy Altman's characters are what supply Bogdanovich's with a guiding, if quickly vanishing, light. Even if...

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...an Emmy nomination, "The Tenth Month," as well as the HBO films "Between Friends" with Elizabeth Taylor and "The Laundromat," directed by Robert Altman. Other television specials include "Dolly and Carol In Nashville" with Dolly Parton,...

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