Robert Altman: In Memoriam

"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
-Robert Altman

If anybody lived many lifetimes through his work in cinema it was Robert Altman. For nearly four decades he made films that weaved in and out lives, genres, time periods, styles and formulas. Altman made movies on his own accord. He ignored any kind of demands or conventions that filmmakers periodically have to succumb to. His movies were unique and unmistakably Altman. He passed away of natural causes last night, November 21st, 2006; leaving behind a great legacy that included some of the finest, most original films ever seen in Hollywood. Some of his credits include M.A.S.H. (1970), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Gosford Park (2001) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006).