Robert Altman

Julian Fellowes' From Time to Time a really satisfying family film

Glasgow Film Festival blog

Cary Grant would, I think, have approved of some of the goings-on at the party held in his name last night. As an iconic figure of class, cool and control he took many opportunities to puncture that image in some of the all-time-classic screwball…

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THEATRE ADAPTATION (15) 104min (Metrodome) The vexed issue of how to turn stage plays into cinema has haunted the movies for as long as the technology to make film has existed. This 1983 attempt by Robert Altman to film David Rabe’s noted mid-70s…

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Simultaneously a dream and a nightmare for film buffs everywhere, Alexandra Cassavetes’s film melds together various different strands into a fascinating portrait of the power of cinema. The Z Channel was an LA-based cable TV station dedicated to the…

Prairie Home Companion, A - feature

The show must go on

In an ironic twist, the late director Robert Altman’s final film, A Prairie Home Companion, was anchored by death. Written by Garrison Keillor, and named after the much-loved radio programme this native Minnesotan has been producing since 1974, it’s a…