Robert Altman mesmerised audiences with his 1977 film '3 Women', which remains a puzzling meditation on femininity and female ...

“Once [Altman’s style] is understood, it can be recognised in almost any one part of any film he makes,” wrote Robert Kolker in A Cinema of Loneliness. “He stands with [Stanley] Kubrick as ...

No one has ever made a good movie,” said Robert Altman. He had, of course, made a dozen or so great ones himself – Nashville, M*A*S*H, Gosford Park among them – and many others that are, by ...