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May 2, 2023 · IMDb users say the best movies of Robert Altman's esteemed career include Short Cuts, Gosford Park, and the Western film McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
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Nov 27, 2018 · Robert Altman put out over 30 movies, some of them masterpieces. We rank the best Altman movies, including Gosford Park, Popeye, Nashville, Short Cuts, The Player, and more.
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- NASHVILLE (1975) Director: Robert Altman. Writer: Joan Tewkesbury. Starring Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakley, Lily Tomlin, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty, Michael Murphy, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin.
- M*A*S*H (1970) Director: Robert Altman. Writer: Ring Lardner, Jr. Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall.
- THE PLAYER (1992) Director: Robert Altman. Writer: Michael Tolkin, based on his novel. Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio and seemingly every working actor in Hollywood.
- McCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971) Director: Robert Altman. Writers: Robert Altman, Brian McKay. Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Hugh Millais.
- Gosford Park (86%) Given Altman's love of ensemble films, a grand murder mystery seems like the perfect genre for him. Unsurprisingly, he brought a lot of class and beauty to this type of film in Gosford Park.
- Cookie's Fortune (86%) Altman previously tackled a murder mystery of sorts with Cookie's Fortune, albeit with an interesting twist. Following the suicide of their matriarch, a well-respected Southern family attempts to cover up the scandal by staging a murder.
- Vincent & Theo (88%) Vincent Van Gogh has been the subject of many films that explore his tortured genius as an artist. Altman took a new approach to the story with Vincent & Theo which examines the relationship between Vincent and his brother Theo who supported his brother's artistic pursuits and tried to find a market for his paintings to be sold.
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (88%) Altman tried his hand at the Western genre with McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and as you can imagine, it made for a unique entry in the genre.
- Nashville. Nashville is a truly iconic film and deserves its place at the top spot of this list. The film was released in 1975 and was a statement film about Bicentennial-era America.
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller. 1971 saw the release of McCabe & Mrs. Miller, a truly important film that become a significant influence on future filmmakers. The film is a romantic anti-western that follows Warren Beatty, who builds a brothel in a mining town, which doesn't sit well with its inhabitants.
- 3 Women. 1977 saw the release of 3 Women, which is a complex film that stands the test of time as one of the most important in Altman’s filmography. The first half is a comedy about mismatched flatmates, who are played by Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek.
- Popeye. Popeye was released in 1980 and is one of the few comic book movies that stays completely true to its original source. The film is set in the town of Sweethaven, and Robin Williams plays the well-known sailor, with Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
One day, Frances Austen, a rich but lonely woman, invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him stay there--and has no intention of ever letting him leave.
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Robert Altman is a filmmaker and an American director, producer, actor and writer. Robert Altman was born on February 1, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Altman is known as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
