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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The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman
United States, 1973
35mm Archival Print
Repeats Wednesday / 7.23.25 (without introduction)
Friday, June 13 7 PM
Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David Thomson
Updating 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).
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M*A*S*H
Robert Altman
United States, 1970
35mm Archival Print
Sunday, June 15 7 PM
Winner 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.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
United States, 1971
4K Digital Restoration
Repeats Saturday / 8.30.25 (without introduction)
Thursday, June 19 7 PM
Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David Thomson
Far 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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3 Women
Robert Altman
United States, 1977
Repeats Sunday / 8.3.25 (without introduction)
Sunday, June 22 7 PM
Introduced by Leila Weefur
Young 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).
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Short Cuts
Robert Altman
United States, 1993
35mm Archival Print
Saturday, June 28 6 PM
Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion with David Thomson
Short 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).
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Nashville
Robert Altman
United States, 1975
Friday, July 4 5 PM
As 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).
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That Cold Day in the Park
Robert Altman
United States, Canada, 1969
Restored 35mm Archival Print
Sunday, July 6 7 PM
In 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.
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Images
Robert Altman
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, 1972
Sunday, July 13 7 PM
Susannah 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).
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The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman
United States, 1973
35mm Archival Print
Also screens Friday / 6.13.25 (with introduction)
Wednesday, July 23 7 PM
Updating 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).
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Robert Altman
United States, 1982
Restored 35mm Archival Print
Sunday, July 27 7 PM
Sandy 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.
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Gosford Park
Robert Altman
United Kingdom, 2001
35mm Archival Print
Saturday, August 2 4 PM
In 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).
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3 Women
Robert Altman
United States, 1977
Also screens Sunday / 6.22.25 (with introduction)
Sunday, August 3 6:30 PM
Young 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).
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The Player
Robert Altman
United States, 1992
Wednesday, August 6 7 PM
Hollywood 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).
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Vincent & Theo
Robert Altman
Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, 1990
35mm Archival Print
Sunday, August 10 7 PM
This 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).
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Popeye
Robert Altman
United States, 1980
35mm Archival Print
Saturday, August 16 4 PM
Robin 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).
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Nashville
Robert Altman
United States, 1975
Sunday, August 24 6:30 PM
As 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).
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman
United States, 1971
4K Digital Restoration
Also screens Thursday / 6.19.25 (with introduction)
Saturday, August 30 1 PM
Far 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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Robert Altman at 100

June 13–August 30, 2025

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-...

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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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.