Altman (film)
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| Altman | |
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| Directed by | Ron Mann |
| Written by | Len Blum |
| Produced by | Ron Mann Bill Imperial |
| Cinematography | Simon Ennis |
| Edited by | Robert Kennedy |
| Music by | Phil Dwyer Guido Luciani |
Production company | Sphinx Productions |
| Distributed by | Epix |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Altman is a 2014 documentary film about the life and career of film director Robert Altman.[1] The film was directed and produced by Ron Mann.[2] It features brief contributions by several actors who had appeared in Altman's films, such as Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Julianne Moore, Michael Murphy and Elliott Gould, as well as director Paul Thomas Anderson, who served as a "backup" director on A Prairie Home Companion.
The film focuses in part on the problems Altman faced over the course of his filmmaking career, including writing screenplays (he sold a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard) after World War II, and working as a director and writer of industrial films for the Calvin Company, and for television. Altman rose to prominence in the 1970s with films such as M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, before commercial flops forced a flight to Europe in the 1980s with projects such as Popeye.
Then, Altman enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s with The Player. The film also features commentary from Altman's wife and children, discussing their relationships and memories of him, and is peppered with short segments with Altman collaborators, each giving a synonym for the term "Altmanesque", in reference to Altman's methods.