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Comeback Kid: Happy Anniversary, Robert Altman

It's been 40 years since Robert Altman successfully departed Hollywood, and 30 since he successfully returned. Low-budget indie cinema and satirical black comedy saved the filmmaker, finds Ellen O'Donohue Oddy
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Be Free: The Morose and Joyful Harold And Maude At 50

At once tender and existential, bleak and ecstatic, Hal Ashby's crowning jewel Harold and Maude is as charming and kaleidoscopically impactful today as it was in 1971, finds Rafaela Sales Ross
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O Captain: Is Robert Altman’s Popeye Still A Failure 40 Years On?

In 1980, Robert Altman turned his talents to an unlikely character with a live-action take on Popeye – with Robin Williams in the title role. The confusing plotline and baffling concept troubled audiences at the time – but how does it hold up?

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Singers Of Mercy: How McCabe & Mrs Miller Changed The Western Soundtrack

With a new release on Blu-ray from Warners out now, Charlie Brigden examines the way Robert Altman's use of songs by Leonard Cohen in McCabe & Mrs Miller changed the sound of the western – for good
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Take No Prisoners: Robert Altman Remembered

David Moats imagines this years Oscars as a battle for Robert Altman’s soul, as a new documentary on the late director of Mash, Nashville, The Long Goodbye and Gosford Park comes to cinemas

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