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)
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Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye (1973)
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Robert Altman: Short Cuts (1993)
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Robert Altman: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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Robert Altman: Gosford Park (2001)
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Robert Altman: Images (1972)
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Robert Altman: Nashville (1975)
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman
United States, 197335mm Archival Print
Repeats Wednesday / 7.23.25 (without introduction)Friday, June 13 7 PMIntroduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David ThomsonView DetailsUpdating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).
M*A*S*H
Robert Altman
United States, 197035mm Archival Print
Sunday, June 15 7 PMView DetailsWinner of the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, M*A*S*H put Robert Altman on the map. The anti-everything episodic war comedy follows the antics of a trio of surgeons in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
United States, 19714K Digital Restoration
Repeats Saturday / 8.30.25 (without introduction)Thursday, June 19 7 PMIntroduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David ThomsonView DetailsFar from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.
3 Women
Robert Altman
United States, 1977Sunday, June 22 7 PMIntroduced by Leila WeefurView DetailsYoung Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
United States, 199335mm Archival Print
Saturday, June 28 6 PMIntroduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David ThomsonView DetailsShort Cuts is a Los Angeles–set, star-studded mosaic of unhappy families in situations that are tragic, comic, and commonplace. “The movie has the intensity of an epic, only its subject matter is everyday life” (Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal).
Nashville
Robert Altman
United States, 1975Friday, July 4 5 PMView DetailsAs the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
That Cold Day in the Park
Robert Altman
United States, Canada, 1969Restored 35mm Archival Print
Sunday, July 6 7 PMView DetailsIn this class-conscious psychosexual thriller, Sandy Dennis plays Frances Austen, a lonely, repressed woman who takes a lonely young man into her home and won’t let go.
Images
Robert Altman
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, 1972Sunday, July 13 7 PMView DetailsSusannah York won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role (or roles?) as Cathryn, a woman experiencing psychosis on holiday at her country home. “One of the finest psychological thrillers ever made” (Judith Crist, New York Magazine).
The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman
United States, 197335mm Archival Print
Also screens Friday / 6.13.25 (with introduction)Wednesday, July 23 7 PMView DetailsUpdating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Robert Altman
United States, 1982Restored 35mm Archival Print
Sunday, July 27 7 PMView DetailsSandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates star in Robert Altman’s tale of the members of a James Dean fan club reuniting in a small Texas town.
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
United Kingdom, 200135mm Archival Print
Saturday, August 2 4 PMView DetailsIn 1932 the wealthy and their servants descend on the titular English manor for a hunting party that quickly transforms into a comic and biting upstairs-downstairs murder mystery. “A beautifully proportioned work in which 30 fairly well defined characters don’t seem excessive” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).
3 Women
Robert Altman
United States, 1977Sunday, August 3 6:30 PMView DetailsYoung Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).
The Player
Robert Altman
United States, 1992Wednesday, August 6 7 PMView DetailsHollywood hotshot executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving poison pen postcards in this metatext for film lovers. “With breathtaking assurance, the movie veers from psychological-thriller suspense to goofball comedy to icy satire” (Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker).
Vincent & Theo
Robert Altman
Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, 199035mm Archival Print
Sunday, August 10 7 PMView DetailsThis unconventional and direct biopic provides a portrait of codependent brothers, artist Vincent and art dealer Theo van Gogh. “The relationship between van Gogh and his brother supplies the canvas for a rumination on life, art and commerce, featuring passionate performances from Tim Roth and Paul Rhys” (Ryan Gilbey, Guardian).
Popeye
Robert Altman
United States, 198035mm Archival Print
Saturday, August 16 4 PMView DetailsRobin Williams is Popeye, with Shelley Duval as Olive Oyl, in Robert Altman’s musical comedy, adapted by Julies Feiffer from the 1930s comic by E. C. Segar. “Shelley Duvall is perfect here as Olive Oyl, the role she was born to play” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).
Nashville
Robert Altman
United States, 1975Sunday, August 24 6:30 PMView DetailsAs the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
United States, 19714K Digital Restoration
Also screens Thursday / 6.19.25 (with introduction)Saturday, August 30 1 PMView DetailsFar from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.
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