Robert Altman
1) Nashville
Series
Criterion collection volume 683
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in the nation's music capital. The film weaves the stories of twenty-four characters; from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress, into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical.
2) MASH
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
During the Korean War, three U.S. Army surgeons defy military authority when they are not performing their duties.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams.
Told largely through his own voice captured in interviews and audio recordings, this documentary takes an initimate look at the life and work of beloved American comedian and actor Robin Williams. Includes never-before-seen home video and movie/TV outtake footage as well as personal archival material and new interviews with those who knew Williams best....
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Inside and outside the claustrophobic art world of Paris in the late 19th century, two Dutch brothers try to make their mark. Vincent can only paint and rage. Soft souled, black-toothed, he spends his life in a series of barren rooms, taking his work as far as it can go. Theo can only try--mostly in vain for the length of both their lives--to sell his brother's work. Theo vicariously participates in his brother's art while working, marrying, and contracting...
Series
Criterion collection volume 827
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?