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20 May 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

Robert Altman was a regular at Cannes, starting with his Palme d’Or-winning Mash in 1970. The award was soon followed with nominations for other works, including Thieves Like Us and 3 Women, and then recognition as Best Director in 1992 with The Player. Five and a half years after his passing in 2006, the director returns to the festival again, this time as the subject of the authorized bio-doc Altman.

Now in pre-production, the film is being presented to buyers at the Cannes Market by producers David Koh and Josh & Dan Braun of Submarine Entertainment, along with co-financier Stanley Buchthal, he of Dakota Group. Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Go Further) will direct Altman, which is in the process of being produced by Mann’s Toronto-based Sphinx as an Epix Original Documentary, in association with Astral’s pay TV service Movie Network (Tmn). It’s also being co-produced by Altman’s widow, »

- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)

4 March 2012 9:28 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

Author’s note: The Tree of Life has already been reviewed on Dearcinema but this is a fresh evaluation and reflective essay about its implications because it is now being hailed as the best film of the year and it is not unlikely that it will soon make it to Sight and Sound’s list of the greatest films of all time.

Terrence Malick, one of America’s most respected filmmakers, first attracted attention through Badlands (1973) a film very much in the same mold as Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Robert Altman’s Thieves like Us (1974) in that it is about a young couple going on a robbery spree in the depression era and eventually coming to a tragic or bad end. What distinguishes Malick’s film from the other two is the director’s lyricism, his deep sense of the beauty of the land – where Bonnie and Clyde »

- MK Raghvendra

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