The pioneering director would have celebrated his 100th birthday this month. Louis Chilton looks at the life and influence of one of cinema’s true greats ...

Robert Altman was one of the defining New Hollywood ... falls in love with Keechie (Shelley Duvall), a kind-hearted young woman, and dreams of leaving his criminal past behind.

No one has ever made a good movie,” said Robert Altman. He had, of course, made a dozen or so great ones himself – Nashville, M*A*S*H, Gosford Park among them – and many others that are ...