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Watch: Altman 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – The life of Robert Altman over the course of his career as a filmmaker is told in roughly chronological order. It is presented largely through archival footage, including of his interviews and of his and his longtime wife Kathryn Reed’s home movies. It includes his rocky start in Hollywood as an aspiring screenwriter, which instead led to him working as a general filmmaker for an industrial film company. This work led to directing assignments for a number of television series back in Hollywood, where he butted heads with a number of studio executives and producers who did not appreciate his style of filmmaking in his desire to insert a sense a realism in whatever the project, that realism which includes hanging story-lines and overlapping dialogue, often in multiple equally important conversations in a single setting which forces the viewer to decide which conversation he/she wants to focus. This situation often led to him trying to achieve what he wanted either in not telling or flying beneath the radar of the studio executive and producers. Altman’s cachet in Hollywood took a meteoric turn upward with the film M*A*S*H (1970) which all other directors approached had turned down, it which ended up being a box-office smash and critically acclaimed, including winning that year’s coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Over the remaining course of his filmmaking life which included some highs and lows (including a string of box office and critical failures in the late 1970s and early 1980s), he tried to instill a sense of of family among the cast and crew of his sets. Beyond his marriage to Kathryn, the personal side to the story includes his being father to a number of children and step-children who would enter into the business, and some health issues, one which ended up in him having a heart transplant of which he did not tell the public until ten years after the fact. Interspersed with the archive footage is a number of celebrities – actors who have worked in his films and contemporaries influenced by his work – who give their definition of the adjective “Altmanesque”..
Plot: Robert Altman’s life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
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Altmanesque.
In 2014, a documentary about one of my favourite filmmakers was finally released. This is by no means a perfect documentary, but any film lover or fan of his work absolutely needs to see this.

Robert Altman started from the bottom of showbiz then worked his way up to directing tv shows. How? He did lots of lying. Then in 1970, he started the boom of new up and coming directors trying to make names for themselves. These new directors included Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas, and the movement came to be known as “The New Wave of American Cinema”. The year was 1970 and Altman created the well-liked ‘Brewster McCloud’ and the highly acclaimed anti-war film ‘M*A*S*H’. Altman’s desire to explore unconventional takes for his films led to making “anti-” films. ‘M*A*S*H’ had no violence making it anti-war. Some of these other “anti” film included anti-western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, my personal favourite of his), and anti-friendship (3 Women).

By the late 70s, Altman was falling into a slump when his film ‘Quintet’ didn’t live up to expectations of his earlier masterpieces. But it was the his live action take on ‘Popeye’ in 1980 that ruined his film career throughout the rest of the decade. Barely getting film offers anymore, he tried directing theatre. He loved theatre just as much.

Things were looking up when he made the darkly comical satire ‘The Player’ in 1992. He was back on top again. Everything about that film is pitch perfect. A year later he does ‘Short Cuts’, one of the best epics with multiple stories ever made. The remainder of his career saw some back and forth hits with his Agatha Christie inspired ‘Gosford Park’ and final film project ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ being notable highs.

It felt to me that this documentary moved a little too fast. Rather than gliding along everything, it tried to fit into some kind of allotted time. And I also felt that they should have gone into more detail on what made Robert Altman an auteur.

So this may not be perfect, but it is definitely a movie-lover’s dream come alive.

3.5/4

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-PG
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director Ron Mann
Writer Len Blum
Actors Michael Murphy, Robert Altman, Kathryn Reed
Country Canada
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 16:9 HD
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