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Susannah York won the Best Actress award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for one of director Robert Altman’s most intriguing but difficult films. It was Golden Globe nominated for 1973 Best English-Language Foreign Film. She […]
Director Robert Altman’s 1971 revisionist view of the Western is atypical of the genre annoyed and so alienated many action fans back in the day and, despite its obvious qualities, was greeted with faint praise. Indeed […]
Writer-director Robert Altman’s masterly 1993 take on Los Angeles, re-created from nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, is an ambitious and extraordinary creation. The meeting of two American cult masters is fully the momentous movie occasion […]
Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]
Writer-director Robert Benton (Kramer vs, Kramer) brings all his brio and class to this stupendous, utterly beguiling 1977 neo-noir mystery movie, the fondest possible homage you could imagine to 40s film noir detective thrillers. It’s advertised as […]
Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]
Director Robert Altman’s stupendous 1982 film is the notable first of his fertile adaptations of stage plays. He makes a superb job of the stage to screen transfer of Ed Graczyk’s play about a group of […]