Robert Altman films all month at KC Central Library

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ALTMAN MONTH

The films of Robert Altman will be featured at 6:30 p.m. Mondays and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays in November in the Film Vault of the KC Central Library. Admission is free.

The schedule:

•“M*A*S*H” (6:30 p.m. Monday): Army surgeons patch up bodies and defy the brass in Korea. This 1970 comedy was Altman’s biggest hit.

•“McCabe and Mrs. Miller” (1:30 p.m. Nov. 7): Tinhorn gambler Warren Beatty builds a bordello and falls for madam Julie Christie in this Western.

•“The Long Goodbye” (6:30 p.m. Nov. 9): Elliott Gould is gumshoe Philip Marlowe in this non-noirish mystery set in sunny L.A.

•“California Split” (1:30 p.m. Nov. 14): Gambling addicts Elliott Gould and George Segal are desperate to win.

•“Nashville” (1:30 p.m. Nov. 21): Kaleidoscopic study of Country City USA during a presidential campaign.

•“Short Cuts” (6:30 p.m. Nov. 23) The lives of a dozen Los Angelinos intersect.

•“Gosford Park” (1:30 p.m. Nov. 28): A British drawing room murder mystery with a star-studded cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon.

•“A Prairie Home Companion” (6:30 p.m. Nov. 30): A folksy radio show airs its last broadcast in this, Altman’s final film.

| Robert W. Butler

Posted on Thu, Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 PM

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