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VILMOS ZSIGMOND and Laszlo Kovacs , whose cinematography would help change the look of American movies in the late 1960s and 1970s, first met in 1953 on a Budapest street corner near the Academy of Drama and Film, where both men were enrolled as cinematography students.

When American auteur Robert Altman died on Nov. 20, 2006, his biographer was left with a pile of transcripts.

Mitch Zuckoff exchanged many e-mails with Robert Altman 's widow, Kathryn , before embarking on his biography of the legendary director.

A weatherman. That's what Robert Altman might have become had he pursued meteorology, an early interest in life.

Clue: The Departed , which must have been around Martin Scorsese's thirtieth picture, and did win the directing Oscar, cost $90 million --so don't go that way.

Robert Altman's films never told us what to think or feel. The Kansas City-born director - of classics like "McCabe and Mrs.

Some 40 years ago a relatively unknown director by the name of Robert Altman was given the chance to direct a film by the name of M*A*S*H. The screenplay had been written by one of the infamous "Hollywood 10", Ring Lardner Jr.

Like his brothers David, Robert and Bruce and half-brother Michael Bowen, Keith Carradine followed in the footsteps of his father, John Carradine, and became an actor in the early 1970s.

Like his brothers David, Robert and Bruce and half-brother Michael Bowen, Keith Carradine followed in the footsteps of his father, John Carradine, and became an actor in the early 1970s.

It's decent and heartfelt, and there's some sharp diamond action toward the end, but more often it aims for "Hoosiers'' and settles for a Ford commercial.

Long before anyone thought of handing audiences pushbuttons and joysticks to control the outcome of a work of art, Robert Altman was making interactive movies.

Robert Altman would never admit this, but I believe Dr. T, the gynecologist in his latest film, is an autobiographical character.

The actress, starring in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee directed by Rebecca Miller, is back with her family man husband Ryan Gilbey The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, directed by Rebecca Miller, is a well-meaning portrait of a middle-aged woman in emotional free fall.

Starting Saturday, on the lawless streets of Hillsboro Village, The Belcourt will devote its entire summer of weekend repertory programming to the movies' monument to manifest destiny, the Western.

Miller " . Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if she isn't the female Hugh Hefner before she turns 30.