Resources for Robert Altman

Cookie's Fortune
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A relaxed and amiable Southern gothic comedy of manners.

Dr. T and the Women
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A rambling drama from Robert Altman about what happens when a confident and happily married Texas gynecologist has his secure world rocked by the women he thinks should be treated as saints.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians
DVD/VHS Feature Film
Explores the interface between heroes, hypocrisy, and illusions in the Wild West.

Gosford Park
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A witty and entertaining upstairs, downstairs drama set at a luxurious English estate over a weekend in 1932.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A bawdy and remarkable portrait of the beginnings of wild America.

Short Cuts
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A sharp-edged drama set in Los Angeles that captures and conveys the contemporary malaise of soul-sickness.

Kansas City
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A spunky film in a series of Robert Altman portraits of the failure of the American Dream.

The Player
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A behind-the-scenes look at Tinsel Town.

Streamers
DVD/VHS Feature Film
Conveys the toxic effects of the Vietnam war.

The Company
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A cinematic tribute by Robert Altman to ballet dancers who create poems with their movements across the blank page of the floor.

3 Women
DVD/VHS Feature Film
An intriguing film by Robert Altman that resides in the netherworld between dreaming and waking.

A Wedding
DVD/VHS Feature Film
Depicts the strange way that this ritual has been taken away from families and put into the hands of professionals.

Fool for Love
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A scorching drama about the war between the sexes.

Aria
DVD/VHS Feature Film
Gives 10 filmmakers a chance to create vignettes set to well-known opera arias.

Vincent and Theo
DVD/VHS Feature Film
Just the right mix of drama, visual richness, and psychological nuance.

A Prairie Home Companion
DVD/VHS Feature Film
A fine and funny entertainment that also gives us a keen sense of the impermanence of all creative endeavors and the fleeting nature of reality.



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