Throughout the first half of the 70s, Robert Altman had steadily been working towards the grandest possible version of his cinematic vision. He finally got his opportunity [...]

Mike Leigh’s latest film is one of his most magisterial, meticulous and magnificent – a dramatization of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, during which cavalry charged down [...]

Filming Pet Sematary has always proven more of a challenge than filming King’s other books. For one thing, it has some the eeriest and most unsettling sequences of any of [...]

Arch Nicholson’s Dark Age was completed in 1987 but it was never released theatrically and only got a DVD release belatedly. That makes last month’s screening at Palace [...]

By the time he got to California Split, Robert Altman’s best work with Elliott Gould was behind him. As a result, this film – his last before Nashville – feels like an [...]

As the mid-70s drew near, Robert Altman had become so assured in his vision that he often seemed to be searching for scenarios and screenplays that actively defied his [...]

Robert Altman’s follow-up to McCabe & Mrs. Miller is one of the more elliptical releases of his career – a horror film that was partly extemporized by the actors as [...]

McCabe & Mrs. Miller did so much to reinvent and reinvigorate the western, and became so integral to how the western looks today, that it’s easy to underestimate its [...]

Brewster McCloud, Robert Altman’s fifth feature, was released in the same year as MASH, which is generally considered to be his breakout film. While Brewster McCloud might [...]

In many ways, MASH is the film where Robert Altman’s directorial style congealed and coalesced into something that was all his own. Based upon the series of novels by [...]