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Altman (film)

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footage and well-sourced TV/movie clips provide a tantalising patchwork upon which the narrative fails to build, with investigation of Altman's methods limited to platitudes about a script being little more than a blueprint, and fleeting descriptions of his sound-recording techniques."
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praised the film, only saying that, "Ron Mann's terrifically warm and generous documentary tribute to Robert Altman is, for me, spoiled only fractionally by its gimmick of putting the director's famous collaborators on the spot, on-camera, and demanding a synonym for 'Altmanesque'."
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The film focuses in part on the problems Altman faced over the course of his filmmaking career, including writing screenplays (he sold a script to
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The film received moderately positive reviews. The film holds a 67% rating on review aggregate
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Then, Altman enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s with
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was, likewise, critical of Mann's choices, stating, "
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Documentary films about film directors and producers
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Ron Mann
Len Blum
Epix
documentary film
Robert Altman
Ron Mann
Robin Williams
Bruce Willis
Julianne Moore
Michael Murphy
Elliott Gould
Paul Thomas Anderson
A Prairie Home Companion
RKO
Bodyguard
World War II
Calvin Company
M*A*S*H
The Long Goodbye
Popeye
The Player
Rotten Tomatoes
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
Mark Kermode
The Observer
Home-movie
Canadian Screen Award
Best Editing in a Documentary

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