{"id":10173,"date":"2021-05-03T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:23:06","slug":"bfi-celebrates-the-films-of-robert-altman-in-major-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10173","title":{"rendered":"BFI celebrates the films of Robert Altman in major season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2013 Robert Altman movies spanning five decades are to be screened in a major season at the British Film Institute. Running from May 17 to July 31, the programme will present 34 films in chronological order including \u2018Nashville\u2019 (above), which also will be released in select cinemas across the U.K. on June 25 in a 4K restoration.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Altman (right) is my favourite film director and I agree fully with the view of the BFI in announcing the season: \u2018Using irreverent humour and focusing sympathetically \u2013 but never sentimentally \u2013 on losers and loners, he overturned the conventions of genre revealing a culture obsessed with money, celebrity and power. Independent and iconoclastic, Altman continued to make fresh, intelligent, thought-provoking films throughout his fifty years in the industry.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The season, \u2018Robert Altman: American Outsider\u2019, will include not only classics such as \u2018MASH\u2019, \u2018McCabe & Mrs. Miller\u2019 (with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty, above), \u2018The Long Goodbye\u2019 (with Sterling Hayden and Elliott Gould, below), \u2018The Player\u2019, \u2018Short Cuts\u2019 and \u2018Gosford Park\u2019 but many offbeat favourites including \u2018Brewster McCloud\u2019, \u2019Images\u2019, \u2018Thieves Like Us\u2019, \u2018California Split\u2019, \u2018Buffalo Bill and the Indians\u2019, \u20183 Women\u2019, \u2018Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean\u2019 (with Sandy Denis, Cher and Karen Black, bottom picture) and \u2018Kansas City\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The season will include an illustrated online presentation by programmer Geoff Andrew, \u2018Robert Altman, Outside and Innovator\u2019 on May 24 and an online panel discussion, \u2018Women in the Films of Robert Altman\u2019, on June 17.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The filmmaker had many regular cast members such as Shelley Duvall (below withBud Cort in ‘Brewster McCloud’), Lily Tomlin, Elliott Gould and Paul Dooley and he worked with great cinematographers including Vilmos Zsigmond \u2013 ‘\u2018McCabe\u2019, \u2018Images\u2019, \u2018Long Goodbye\u2019\u2013 and Paul Lohmann \u2013 \u2018California Split\u2019 (with Gould and George Segal, above), \u2018Nashville\u2019, \u2018Buffalo Bill and the Indians\u2019. As the BFI also said, \u2018Altman repeatedly proved himself an influential innovator, experimenting with multitrack sound, overlapping dialogue, complex camera movements, freewheeling narratives and large casts of actors, many of whom he would work with multiple times. He also was a canny critic of American society and the myths that country perpetrated through movies.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The BFI noted that health and safety measures \u2013 including social distancing and the wearing of face coverings \u2013 will continue until government guidance advises otherwise. Full details of all measures in place to protect visitors and staff are available on the BFI website.<\/p>\n

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On-sale dates: Tickets for screenings taking place between May 17 and \u00a0June 30 will go on sale to BFI Patrons and BFI Champions on 3 May, BFI Members on May 4 and to the general public on May 6. Tickets for screenings taking place in July will go on sale to BFI Patrons and BFI Champions on May 31, BFI Members on June 1 and to the general public on June 3.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the screening list:<\/p>\n

THE JAMES DEAN STORY (Robert Altman, George W George, 1957)\u00a0SAT 29 MAY 15:30 NFT2 \/ MON 7 JUN 20:50 NFT2<\/p>\n

THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (Robert Altman, 1969)\u00a0SAT 29 MAY 17:50 NFT1 \/ TUE 8 JUN 18:00 NFT1<\/p>\n

M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1969)\u00a0MON 17 MAY 20:30 NFT2 \/ WED 19 MAY 14:30 NFT1 \/ SAT 29 MAY 20:45 NFT1 \/ THU 10 JUN 18:00 NFT1 \/ TUE 22 JUN 14:30 NFT1 \/ MON 28 JUN 20:40 NFT2<\/p>\n

BREWSTER MCCLOUD (Robert Altman, 1970)\u00a0SUN 30 MAY 19:00 NFT1 \/ SUN 13 JUN 16:00 NFT3 \/ FRI 18 JUN 17:50 NFT3<\/p>\n

MCCABE & MRS MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971)\u00a0FRI 21 MAY 14:30 NFT1 \/ MON 31 MAY 18:30 NFT2 \/ WED 2 JUN 20:45 NFT1 \/ SUN 20 JUN 18:30 NFT3<\/p>\n

IMAGES (Robert Altman, 1972)\u00a0TUE 1 JUN 20:50 NFT2 \/ SAT 12 JUN 15:30 NFT2 \/ FRI 25 JUN 18:00 NFT2<\/p>\n

THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1973)\u00a0SUN 23 MAY 18:20 NFT3 \/ THU 27 MAY 20:50 NFT1 \/ WED 2 JUN 14:30 NFT1 \/ MON 7 JUN 17:50 NFT1 \/ SAT 19 JUN 17:30 NFT1<\/p>\n

THIEVES LIKE US (Robert Altman, 1974)\u00a0THU 3 JUN 20:40 NFT2 \/ TUE 8 JUN 20:30 NFT2 \/ MON 21 JUN 17:50 NFT2<\/p>\n

CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman, 1974)\u00a0FRI 21 MAY 17:50 NFT3 \/ MON 24 MAY 20:50 NFT1 \/ MON 31 MAY 15:45 NFT1 \/ SUN 20 JUN 15:40 NFT3 \/ THU 24 JUN 14:30 NFT1<\/p>\n

NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, 1975)\u00a0FROM FRI 25 JUNE\u00a0Seniors\u2019 matinee + intro by Geoff Andrew MON 28 JUN 13:50 NFT1<\/p>\n

BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL\u2019S HISTORY LESSON (Robert Altman, 1976)\u00a0SAT 5 JUN 17:30 NFT2 \/ SAT 26 JUN 15:10 NFT2<\/p>\n

3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977)\u00a0WED 26 MAY 20:40 NFT2 \/ SAT 5 JUN 20:30 NFT2 \/ THU 10 JUN 14:30 NFT1 \/ SAT 19 JUN 15:00 NFT2<\/p>\n

A WEDDING (Robert Altman, 1978)\u00a0TUE 18 MAY 20:40 NFT1 \/ FRI 11 JUN 18:00 NFT2 \/ WED 23 JUN 14:30 NFT1 \/ SUN 27 JUN 18:10 NFT2<\/p>\n

QUINTET (Robert Altman, 1979)\u00a0SAT 12 JUN 18:10 NFT2 \/ WED 30 JUN 20:45 NFT2<\/p>\n

A PERFECT COUPLE (Robert Altman, 1979)\u00a0TUE 1 JUN 17:50 NFT3 \/ MON 14 JUN 17:50 NFT3 \/ WED 16 JUN 20:45 NFT3<\/p>\n

HEALTH (Robert Altman, 1980)\u00a0TUE 15 JUN 20:45 NFT3 \/ SUN 27 JUN 12:15 NFT3<\/p>\n

POPEYE (Robert Altman, 1980)\u00a0SUN 13 JUN 12:50 NFT1 \/ TUE 29 JUN 17:50 NFT2<\/p>\n

COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (Robert Altman, 1982)\u00a0THU 3 JUN 17:50 NFT1 \/ SAT 19 JUN 12:30 NFT3<\/p>\n

STREAMERS (Robert Altman, 1982)\u00a0SUN 6 JUN 13:00 NFT3 \/ MON 21 JUN 20:40 NFT3<\/p>\n

SECRET HONOR (Robert Altman, 1983)\u00a0WED 16 JUN 18:00 NFT2 \/ SUN 27 JUN 15:50 NFT2<\/p>\n

OC & STIGGS (Robert Altman, 1985)\u00a0WED 9 JUN 20:40 NFT3 \/ TUE 22 JUN 18:00 NFT2<\/p>\n

FOOL FOR LOVE (Robert Altman, 1985)\u00a0SAT 5 JUN 15:10 NFT3 \/ SAT 12 JUN 20:40 NFT3<\/p>\n

BEYOND THERAPY (Robert Altman, 1986) + LES BOR\u00c9ADES (Robert Altman, 1987)\u00a0THU 24 JUN 17:50 NFT3 \/ TUE 29 JUN 20:45 NFT2<\/p>\n

VINCENT AND THEO (Robert Altman, 1990)\u00a0SAT 3 JUL 12:40 NFT3 \/ TUE 13 JUL 20:30 NFT3<\/p>\n

THE PLAYER (Robert Altman, 1992)\u00a0SAT 3 JUL 20:40 NFT1 \/ MON 12 JUL 17:45 NFT1 \/ WED 28 JUL 20:30 NFT1<\/p>\n

SHORT CUTS (Robert Altman, 1993)\u00a0SUN 4 JUL 11:30 NFT1 \/ SAT 17 JUL 19:30 NFT1<\/p>\n

PR\u00caT-\u00c0-PORTER (Robert Altman, 1994)\u00a0SAT 3 JUL 17:40 NFT3 \/ MON 19 JUL 18:10 NFT3<\/p>\n

KANSAS CITY (Robert Altman, 1996)\u00a0SUN 4 JUL 15:20 NFT2 \/ THU 15 JUL 17:40 NFT2<\/p>\n

THE GINGERBREAD MAN (Robert Altman, 1997)\u00a0FRI 9 JUL 20:40 NFT3 \/ SAT 17 JUL 17:50 NFT3<\/p>\n

COOKIE\u2019S FORTUNE (Robert Altman, 1999)\u00a0TUE 6 JUL 14:50 NFT1 \/ WED 7 JUL 20:40 NFT1 \/ TUE 27 JUL 17:40 NFT1<\/p>\n

DR T & THE WOMEN (Robert Altman, 2000)\u00a0SAT 10 JUL 15:00 NFT2 \/ MON 26 JUL 20:30 NFT3<\/p>\n

GOSFORD PARK (Robert Altman, 2001)\u00a0SUN 11 JUL 15:20 NFT2 \/ SUN 18 JUL 18:20 NFT1 \/ FRI 23 JUL 14:30 NFT1<\/p>\n

THE COMPANY (Robert Altman, 2003)\u00a0TUE 13 JUL 17:50 NFT2 \/ SAT 31 JUL 11:50 NFT2<\/p>\n

A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Robert Altman, 2006)\u00a0SUN 25 JUL 12:00 NFT3 \/ SAT 31 JUL 17:50 NFT3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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