Robert Altman

...on occasion, moments of captivating clarity that made all the drama seem worthwhile. "Robert Altman: The Oral Biography," instead, imitates Altman's art. Mitchell Zuckoff, who had been working with Altman on a book about filmmaking when the...

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...an old hand in dissecting the behaviour of Britain's ruling classes. He wrote Gosford Park for Robert Altman but this time the initial idea didn't come from him. It was Sarah Ferguson who pitched it to the producer, Graham King, Martin...

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...Jirotka. Mr. Probert (Derek Jacobi), valet to Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon), and Robert Parks (Clive Owen), valet to Lord Stockbridge (Charles Dance), in the 2001 film Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman. Fonzworth...

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...Zuckoff has assembled in his fittingly rambling book - a collection of loosely organized and overlapping voices - yes, just as in an Altman film - that pay tribute to the singular director, who died in 2006. Like the weather, Altman was...

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...of his roles in this era were more low-key. In 2001, Bates joined an all-star cast in Robert Altman's critically acclaimed period drama Gosford Park, in which he played the butler Jennings. He later played Antonius Agrippa in the 2004 TV...

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...background. '' (That was 2004's "Tanner on Tanner. '') Kelly Macdonald, the adorable Scottish actress who played the memorable Mary in "Gosford Park,'' said Altman was one of a kind. "I never got a call from a director before saying, 'Come...

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...Jackson's '''' won the award for Best Film , Best Director and Best Makeup & Hair. Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Best British Film of 2001. Russell Crowe won the award for Best Lead Actor in A Beautiful Mind ''. ''A...

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...was on the ballot). Others worth noting are Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line," Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight," Robert Altman's "Gosford Park" and the terribly underrated Paul Newman picture "Nobody's Fool." But there's only so...

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...and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1997's "The Gambler." Others include Robert Altman's "Gosford Park," Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and Michael Mann's "The Insider." Gambon will appear in the final two Potter films,...

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