Altman's mother, Helen, was devoted to her son and his two younger sisters, Joan and Barbara. A convert to Catholicism, she was more refined and arty than her husband, and she had a passion for ...

In the summer of 1967, nearly 100,000 young Americans gathered in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco for free love, free food and free drugs. It was the largest pilgrimage of youth ...

Director Robert Altman got the best work imaginable from actors, like Meryl Streep in A Prairie Home Companion and Shelley ...

This in itself was testament to Altman’s hallowed-elder-statesman status at the time: the fact that one of Hollywood’s buzziest young filmmakers would be willing to simply play backup.

The way music is used in the filmmaker's tongue-in-cheek masterpiece Nashville feels just as modern and political as ever, 50 ...

With overlapping dialogue and a drifting camera to create the impression of real life, the hip Robert Altman made unmistakable films.

Robert Altman's quintessential L.A. story "Short Cuts" is about both the place and the people, featuring a stunner of an ensemble cast.

The seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind M*A*S*H and Gosford Park, who would have turned 100 this year, changed how we watch—and hear—movies.

News about Robert Altman. Commentary and archival information about Robert Altman from The New York Times.

On the surface, Robert Altman was a filmmaker of rare eclecticism. Few could equal his range in attending to seemingly every major cinematic genre. Over the course of his career, Altman dabbled in ...

Actress Shelley Duvall has died. Duvall rose to fame in the 1970s as cinema’s new darling and muse to Director Robert Altman who cast her in many of his films. Her first role was in Altman’s ...