Altman
Directed by Ron Mann
2014Documentary95 minCanada
Ron Mann's portrait of Robert Altman, the maverick who defied Hollywood's rules and proved that truly independent films were possible.
Synopsis
Ron Mann's new documentary ALTMAN is an in-depth look at the life and times of filmmaker Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, The Player, Gosford Park, and many more.) While refusing to bow down to Hollywood's conventions, or its executives, Altman's unique style of filmmaking won him friends and enemies, earned him world-wide praise and occasionally scathing criticism, and proved that it IS possible to make truly independent films.
The director
Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers and the founder of Films We Like. Since Imagine the Sound (1981) he has chronicled North American pop culture in films including Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Altman and Carmine Street Guitars.
