Robert Altman

American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) would have turned 100 this year. As a tribute to this formal innovator and exceptional director of actors, we are screening 5 of his most acclaimed films made in the 1970s. Altman achieved international fame with M*A*S*H, an iconoclastic and ironic war film with which he won the Golden Palm at Cannes. He then not only redefined the contours of two other fundamentally American genres, the detective (The Long Goodbye) and the western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), but also made what would become the model of the ensemble film: Nashville. With A Wedding, he continued on this path, casting as ever a relentlessly critical eye on American society, something that would become his trademark.