Robert Altman at 100

June 13–August 30, 2025

Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Robert Altman at 100 showcases a selection of his work across five decades, including his 1970s classics The Long Goodbye, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, and later work like Vincent & Theo and Gosford Park.

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Robert Altman: 3 Women (1977)
Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye (1973)
Robert Altman: Short Cuts (1993)
Robert Altman: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Robert Altman: Gosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman: Images (1972)
Robert Altman: Nashville (1975)

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Robert Altman at 100

June 13–August 30, 2025

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After serving in the South Pacific as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Robert Altman (1925–2006) found himself in his native Kansas City learning the ropes of filmmaking by directing industrial films with catchy titles like How To Run a Filling Station. He then spent nearly a decade directing episodic network television—an actors-first medium—before his critical and commercial breakthrough in 1970, at age forty-five, with the anti-war comedy M*A*S*H. Even within a large ensemble, Altman fostered collaboration and improvisation from his performers. He quickly became a favorite of actors, even when their parts were small or their lines were drowned out by his characteristic overlapping dialogue.

While some twenty years older than many of his New Hollywood contemporaries, Altman did not lack energy or rebellious spirit. He directed thirteen features in the 1970s, including genre-bending classics The Long Goodbye and McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and the sprawling musical mosaic of Americana Nashville. As film historian David Thomson noted, “It is staggering just to recount the credits and reflect on the variety as well as the achievement of Mr. Altman in that decade” (New York Times). Thomson will introduce and lead post-screening discussions of the first screenings for The Long Goodbye and McCabe & Mrs. Miller at BAMPFA, as well as one of Altman’s later mosaics, the 1993 Raymond Carver adaptation Short Cuts.

Robert Altman at 100 offers a selection of his movies across five decades, with casts of all sizes, and spotlights some of his less-seen work, including his trio of cracked-mirror studies of feminine identity and psychosis (That Cold Day in the Park, Images, and 3 Women).

—Jeff Griffith-Perham, Film Exhibition Curatorial Associate

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Film Series Sponsor: Tipu Purkayastha

Robert Altman at 100 is presented in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Thank you to Todd Wiener, Steven K. Hill, UCLA Film & Television Archive; Hannah Prouse, British Film Institute; Edda Manriquez, Academy Film Archive; Chris Chouinard, Park Circus; Ryan Hedge, Criterion Pictures; Emiah Washington, Paramount Pictures; Trudi Francis, Handmade Films; Jason Jackowski, Universal Pictures; and Emily Woodburne, Sam Dinerstein, Janus Films.