I first met Robert Altman as a college student in the summer of 1973 during a weekend in Tarrytown, New York hosted by the film critic Judith Crist. It was part of a subscription series for local ...

Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould in director Robert Altman's 1970 film "M*A*S*H." (Courtesy Brattle Theatre) Other directors tell stories. Robert Altman explored ecosystems. No filmmaker more ...

The Oscar-winning actor/director has a new play, “Topsy Turvy,” about a chorus that loses its ability to sing together after COVID isolation."Things that I had held sacred or had held as truths were ...

Sometimes the oral biography format delivers big time. Such is the case with Mitchell Zuckoff’s marvelous, epic, tapestry-like life-scape of Robert Altman. The book itself resembles any number of ...