New season at BFI Southbank and cinemas across the UK to celebrate Robert Altman
Major retrospective features screenings of 34 films from Altman’s remarkable five-decade career
Last updated 5th Jul 2021
Scala Radio are delighted to partner with the BFI on a major retrospective dedicated to one of the most distinctive and audacious American filmmakers of his time, Robert Altman, running at BFI Southbank from 17 May – 31 July, including a BFI Distribution re-release of Nashville (1975), in selected cinemas UK-wide from 25 June.
Programmed chronologically, this major retrospective, Robert Altman: American Outsider, will feature screenings of 34 films from Altman’s remarkable career, spanning five decades.
Titles will include Altman’s first major hit, the anarchic black comedy MAS*H (1970), his update of Chandler’s classic detective novel The Long Goodbye (1973), the magnificent musical version of Popeye (1980), the acerbically funny portrait of modern Hollywood The Player (1992), his foray into British aristocracy Gosford Park (2001), and many more.
Robert Altman’s masterpiece Nashville (1975), set in country music’s capital as America approached its bicentennial, is re-released by the BFI in selected cinemas across the UK from 25 June in a glorious 4K restoration.