You're a cocky film-school grad with a drawer full of socko screenplays and Hollywood ambitions. Full Article at The Phoenix

As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! Full Article at Film Experience Blog

Mitchell Zuckoff’s new oral biography “Robert Altman” is a brilliantly researched, near-cinematic evocation of how the boy from Kansas City became one of the twentieth century’s greatest native Americans. Full Article at The New Yorker

‘Paris’: An episodic delight | 3 stars Romain Duris is a dancer awaiting a new heart. More News ‘Paris’ ★★★ Not rated | Time: 2:10 French with subtitles Cedric Klapisch’s “Paris” could have been made by the late Robert Altman. Full Article at KansasCity.com

WHEN consumerism spends itself to death and the arteries of fashion are clogged with cheap, disposable and boring designs, it's time to rediscover one-of-a-kind relics from bygone fashion eras. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"BRUNO" Genre: Straights dressing up Classic Precursor: "Some Like It Hot" (1959). Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, like Sacha Baron Cohen, won plenty of pre-release publicity for exploring how the other half loves. Full Article at Variety

FREE FILMS</p><p><strong>&ldquo;NASHVILLE&rdquo; </strong>Robert Altman&rsquo;s kaleidoscopic study of Music City USA during a presidential campaign. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library.</p><p><strong>&ldquo;SHORT CUTS&rdquo;... Full Article at KansasCity.com

Another fantastic find, courtesy EggCityRadio, Gerald Busby‘s scary-as-shit flute soundtrack to Robert Altman‘s 3 Women. Along with The Long Goodbye and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 3 Women definitely makes my “classic” Altman shortlist. Full Article at Dangerous Minds

Film (theatrical and television) director Robert Altman, auteur of some 40 movies (you know what I mean, the stuff that, during what may one day be referred to as America’s Golden Age, was shown on very big screens in halls that held hundreds of... Full Article at The Morning News

The dazzling light show that served as interplanetary communication in 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” helped win both cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and the film their only Oscar. Full Article at The Wrap

Robert Altman biographer speaks here Monday More News Mitchell Zuckoff, author of the newly published “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography,” will discuss the life and career of the Kansas City-born film director in a free presentation Monday. Full Article at KansasCity.com

In Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 560 pages, $29.95), Altman tells the author that his motto is "Giggle and give in." Full Article at Kansas City The Pitch

I recently finished reading Robert Altman: The Oral Biography. Full Article at Blogcritics.org

Woo returns to China for an epic war movie Filming the 14th-century Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a bit like trying to tell all of Shakespeare’s Henry plays in one movie. It’s certainly ambitious, possibly heroic, and nearly impossible. Full Article at Pate Magazine

Robert Altman's Nashville has had many imitators over the years: films that take an array of unrelated characters, then have them cross paths in the course of a day or a few days, hoping to strike sparks of friction or create harmonic resonance between... Full Article at Huffington Post

Free films, special screenings Nov. 13-19 More News FREE FILMS “CALIFORNIA SPLIT” Gambling addicts Elliott Gould and George Segal are desperate for a winning streak in this Robert Altman effort. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library. Full Article at KansasCity.com

The 1970’s masterpiece about a military surgical unit and their dark humor is on Blu-ray! Robert Altman wasn’t yet an established director with his own unique shooting and cutting style when M*A*S*H went into production. Full Article at Pop Syndicate

Like all great improvisers, the late Robert Altman kept a repertoire of stock routines handy. Full Article at The A.V. Club

Special screenings | Nov. 12-15 More News “CALIFORNIA SPLIT” Gambling addicts Elliott Gould and George Segal are desperate for a winning streak. Robert Altman directs. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library. Full Article at KansasCity.com