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episodes of the series, until September 2010, when Nickelodeon bought the series and air the series occasionally on Nicktoons and Nickelodeon normally during TMNTs marathons.
## Third animated series (2012–2017).
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which debuted on September 17, 2018.
# Feature films.
The Turtles have appeared in four feature films. The first three are live-action features produced in the early 1990s: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990), "" (1991), and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III" (1993). The Turtles were pl... | 32,401 |
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on August 8, 2014. On March 12, 2013, Paramount removed its scheduling from the release date.
# Merchandise.
Among the first licensed products to feature the TMNT was a tabletop role-playing game titled "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness", published by Palladium Books in 19... | 32,402 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
In 1986, Dark Horse Miniatures in Boise, Idaho, produced an attendant set of lead figurines; unlike later incarnations, the bandannas on the store's display set were painted all black before the multicolored versions were released to help younger readers dist... | 32,403 |
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generated merchandise sales of in 1988 and in 1989. By 1994, it was the most merchandisable franchise, having generated a total revenue of in merchandise sales up until then.
## Toys.
During the run of the 1987 TV series, Playmates Toys produced hundreds of TMNT action figures, along with... | 32,404 |
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Playmates holding the "Star Trek" action-figure license at the time. Playmates employed many design groups to develop looks and styles for the toy line, including Bloom Design, White Design, Pangea, Robinson-Clarke, and McHale Design. The marketing vice president of Playmates, Karl Aaronian... | 32,405 |
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Lewisham devoted its entire basement to everything Turtle, including games, videos, costumes, and other items. Playmates continue to produce TMNT action figures based on the 2003 animated series. The 2007 film "TMNT" also gave Playmates a new source from which to make figures, while Nationa... | 32,406 |
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by Konami under their "Ultra Games" label in 1989 and later ported to home computers and eventually for the Wii on the Virtual Console. Also released by Konami in 1989 was an arcade game, also titled simply "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", later ported to the NES as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur... | 32,407 |
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created for the Sega Genesis in the same year, and used many of the art assets from "TMNT IV". There was also a trilogy of TMNT video games for the original Game Boy system made by Konami, consisting of: "", "", and "". As the video game series progressed, and the Ninja Turtles' popularity ... | 32,408 |
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'em up games, consisting of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 video game)", "", "", and ".
In 2006, Ubisoft acquired the rights for TMNT games, beginning with a game based on the 2007 animated feature film, along with a distinct game for the Game Boy Advance similar in style to the Konam... | 32,409 |
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the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. The game is described as a third-person, team-based brawler. The campaign will be playable either single-player or co-op and will have an original story written by Tom Waltz, IDW comic writer and editor. The art style is based on... | 32,410 |
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Pack 3" downloadable content.
# In other media.
## Tabletop role playing game.
In 1985, Palladium Books published "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness". This was a stand-alone game, as well as acting as an expansion for their game "Rifts". The game used many key mechanics fr... | 32,411 |
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Food tie-ins.
During the height of their popularity, the Turtles had a number of food tie-ins. Among the most notable of these products was Ninja Turtles Cereal, produced by Ralston-Purina as a kind of "Chex with TMNT-themed marshmallows" which also came with a small pouch of Pizza Cruncha... | 32,412 |
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boxes when the cereal advertising was still geared toward children. One example of a TMNT prize was rings featuring a character on the cartoon (1992). There was also green Ninja Turtle ice cream with different toppings according to which turtle flavor one ordered. Chef Boyardee also release... | 32,413 |
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a familiar plotline: April O'Neil is kidnapped by the Shredder, and the Turtles have to rescue her. The story had a very Bill-n'-Ted-esque feel, with its theme of the power of rock n' roll literally defeating the enemy, in the form of the Shredder (who only rapped about how he hates music) ... | 32,414 |
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audio cassettes of "Coming Out of Their Shells", and "Official Tour Guides" as premiums. The original show of the tour was released on video with a making of video also released. The song "Pizza Power" was later used by Konami for the second arcade game "".
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sing their own rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". They also appeared during the Easter parade dancing to their single "Pizza Power!" The Turtles' live shows and appearances ceased production in 1996.
## Parodies.
Although the TMNT had originated as something of a parody, the co... | 32,416 |
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Once the Turtles broke into the mainstream, parodies also proliferated in other media, such as in satire magazines "Cracked" and "Mad" and numerous TV series of the period. The satirical British television series "Spitting Image" featured a recurring sketch "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turds".
# ... | 32,417 |
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in part: "We've allowed the wacky side to happen, and enjoy it very much. All the while, though, we've kept the originals very much oursforty pages of what we enjoy and want to see in our books, whether it comes from our own hands or from those of the talented people we work with." In the f... | 32,418 |
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the BBC deemed the word "ninja" to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program. Consequently, everything related to the Turtles (comic books, video games, toys, etc.) was renamed before being released in the UK as well as various other European countries.
The lyrics were... | 32,419 |
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elected to remove Michelangelo's nunchaku entirely during season three, replacing them with a grappling hook called the "Turtle Line" that served as Mikey's signature weapon for the rest of the show's run.
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the live-action movie came out in 1990, the "Ninja" of the title was kept even in the UK. In time, nunchaku scenes were retained in previously-censored movies such as those of Bruce Lee. The same went for the PAL releases of the early video games, which had Michelangelo's weapon of choice f... | 32,421 |
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Mutant Ninja Turtles". In 2009, Lionsgate Home Entertainment released the 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition on Region 2 DVD in the UK. This 3-Disc set contains all the episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 and 4 episodes from the final season, as well as a 1-Disc DVD with the first few episodes of ... | 32,422 |
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2009, at which point the rights for the entire TMNT franchise were sold by co-creator Peter Laird to Nickelodeon.
## Television.
The original animated series (1987–1996) was produced by Fred Wolf Films Dublin (as "Murakami Wolf Swenson" ("MWS") and "Murakami Wolf Dublin" ("MWD") during ea... | 32,423 |
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to those episodes were bought out by Fred Wolf Films.
"" was produced by Saban Entertainment, and as of September 2011, is owned and distributed by Saban Brands.
The second animated series (2003–2009) was a co-production between Mirage Studios and 4Kids Entertainment. Nickelodeon's Octobe... | 32,424 |
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contract.
## Films.
The first three TMNT live-action films were produced by Golden Harvest, with New Line Cinema distributing the films in the United States, with 20th Century Fox distributing the second and third films in most other territories. The first two films were copyrighted by th... | 32,425 |
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"", was released on June 3, 2016, with Megan Fox and Will Arnett reprising their roles and debuting Stephen Amell as Casey Jones. Dave Green replaced Liebesman as the director.
## Comic books.
Initially, Mirage allowed employees and freelancers to retain the rights to characters they crea... | 32,426 |
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the difficulty of keeping track of everyone's rights, Mirage made TMNT character creators sign retroactive work-for-hire contracts. One creator who did not sign over the rights to his TMNT work was "Swamp Thing" veteran Rick Veitch.
# See also.
- Table of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles char... | 32,427 |
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a ... | 32,428 |
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and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style. However, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity.
He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a multitrack recording technique which ... | 32,429 |
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of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. He never won a competitive Oscar despite seven nominations. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for preservation in the United States National ... | 32,430 |
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who came from an upper-class family. Altman's ancestry was German, English and Irish; his paternal grandfather, Frank Altman, Sr., anglicized the spelling of the family name from "Altmann" to "Altman". Altman had a Catholic upbringing, but he did not continue to follow or practise the religion as an adult... | 32,431 |
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on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.
Upon his discharge in 1946, Altman moved to California. He worked in publicity for a company that had invented a tattooing machine to identify dogs. He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 pic... | 32,432 |
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"Modern Football" (1951), was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins.
Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a local businessman in 1956 to write and direct a feature film in Kansas City on juvenile delinquency. The film, titled "The Delinquents", made for $60,000, was ... | 32,433 |
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recent death and marketed to his emerging cult following.
# Television work.
Altman's first forays into TV directing were on the DuMont drama series "Pulse of the City" (1953–1954), and an episode of the 1956 western series "The Sheriff of Cochise". After Alfred Hitchcock saw Altman's early features "Th... | 32,434 |
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of "Whirlybirds", "The Millionaire", "U.S. Marshal", "The Troubleshooters", "The Roaring 20s", "Bonanza", "Bus Stop", "Kraft Mystery Theater", "Combat!", as well as single episodes of several other notable series including "Hawaiian Eye", "Maverick" (the fourth season episode "Bolt From the Blue" also wri... | 32,435 |
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conform to network mandates, as well as insisting on expressing political subtexts and antiwar sentiments during the Vietnam years, Altman always was able to gain assignments. In 1964, the producers decided to expand "Once Upon a Savage Night", one of his episodes of "Kraft Suspense Theatre", for release ... | 32,436 |
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success.
In 1969, Altman was offered the script for "MASH", an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services; more than a dozen other filmmakers had passed on it. Altman had been hesitant to take the production, and the shoot was so tumultuous that Elliott Gould ... | 32,437 |
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Film Archive preserved "MASH" in 2000.
Now recognized as a major talent, Altman notched critical successes with "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), a Revisionist Western in which the mordant songs of Leonard Cohen underscore a gritty vision of the American frontier; "The Long Goodbye" (1973), a controversial ... | 32,438 |
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of country music. The stars of the film wrote their own songs; Keith Carradine won an Academy Award for the song "I'm Easy". Although his films were often met with divisive notices, many of the prominent film critics of the era (including Pauline Kael, Vincent Canby and Roger Ebert) remained steadfastly l... | 32,439 |
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company included "Brewster McCloud", "A Wedding", "3 Women", and "Quintet".
# Later career and renaissance.
In 1980, he directed the musical film "Popeye". Produced by Robert Evans and written by Jules Feiffer, the film was based on the comic strip/cartoon of the same name and starred the comedian Robin... | 32,440 |
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director; Altman reportedly clashed with Evans, Williams (who threatened to leave the film) and songwriter Harry Nilsson (who departed midway through the shoot, leaving Van Dyke Parks to finish the orchestrations). Although the film grossed $60 million worldwide on a $20 million budget and was the second ... | 32,441 |
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1980. The departure of longtime Altman partisan Alan Ladd, Jr. from Fox also played a decisive role in forestalling the release of the film.
Unable to secure major financing in the post-New Hollywood blockbuster era because of his mercurial reputation and the particularly tumultuous events surrounding th... | 32,442 |
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Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" at the University of Michigan, where he concurrently taught a course on his films. Shortly thereafter, he returned to film "Secret Honor" with students. In 2008, the University of Michigan Library acquired Altman's archive. He also co-wrote John Anderson's 1983 hit singl... | 32,443 |
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"Fool for Love" (1985) featured the playwright-actor alongside Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton and Randy Quaid; it fared better than most of his films from the era, earning $900,000 domestically on a $2 million budget and positive reviews from Roger Ebert and Vincent Canby. Still, widespread popularity w... | 32,444 |
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broadcast in the United Kingdom. A theatrical version of the film was a modest success in the United States, marking a significant turning point in the director's critical resurgence.
He revitalized his career in earnest with "The Player" (1992), a satire of Hollywood. Co-produced by the influential Davi... | 32,445 |
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citizens of Los Angeles over the course of several days. The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director. In 1996, Alt... | 32,446 |
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plus six more nominations, including two for Altman, as Best Director and Best Picture.
Working with independent studios such as the now-shuttered Fine Line, Artisan (which was absorbed into today's Lionsgate), and USA Films (now Focus Features), gave Altman the edge in making the kinds of films he alway... | 32,447 |
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speech, he revealed that he had received a heart transplant approximately ten or eleven years earlier. The director then quipped that perhaps the Academy had acted prematurely in recognizing the body of his work, as he felt like he might have four more decades of life ahead of him.
# Personal life.
## F... | 32,448 |
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who often worked with his father. His third wife was Kathryn Reed. They were married from 1957 until his death in 2006. They had two sons, Robert and Matthew. Altman became the stepfather to Konni Reed when he married Kathryn.
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the 1970s, but sold that home and the Lion's Gate production company in 1981. "I had no choice", he told "The New York Times". "Nobody was answering the phone" after the flop of "Popeye". He moved his family and business headquarters to New York City, but eventually moved back to Malibu, where he lived un... | 32,450 |
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that he would move to Paris if George W. Bush were elected, but joked that he had meant Paris, Texas, when it came to pass. He noted that "the state would be better off if he (Bush) is out of it." Altman was an outspoken marijuana user, and served as a member of the NORML advisory board. He was also an at... | 32,451 |
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at age 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his production company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.
The film director Paul Thomas Anderson dedicated his 2007 film "There Will Be Blood" to Altman. Anderson had worked as a standby dire... | 32,452 |
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of actors, natural overlapping conversations, and encouraged his actors to improvise and express their innate creativity, but without fear of failing. Lily Tomlin compared him to "a great benign patriarch who was always looking out for you as an actor", adding that "you're not afraid to take chances with ... | 32,453 |
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to explode them" through satire.
Actor Tim Robbins, who starred in a number of Altman's films, describes some of the unique aspects of his directing method:
Altman's personal archives are located at the University of Michigan, which include about 900 boxes of personal papers, scripts, legal, business an... | 32,454 |
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life and work with film clips and interviews.
# Directing style and technique.
## Maverick and auteur.
Following his successful career in television, Altman began his new career in the movie industry when he was in middle-age. He understood the creative limits imposed by the television genre, and now s... | 32,455 |
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Altman was known for "refusing to compromise his own artistic vision." He has been described as "anti-Hollywood," often ignoring the social pressures that affected others in the industry, which made it more difficult for him to get many of his films seen. However, he still felt that his independence as a ... | 32,456 |
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with imperfections, people as they really are, not as the movies would have you believe." Director Alan Rudolph, during a special tribute to Altman, refers to his moviemaking style as "Altmanesque."
With his independent style of directing, he developed a bad reputation among screenwriters and those on th... | 32,457 |
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from a film he was working on.
His reputation among actors is quite different, however. With them, his independence sometimes extended to his choice of actors, often going against consensus. Cher, for instance, credits him for launching her career with both the stage play and film, "Come Back to the Five... | 32,458 |
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With "Short Cuts" (1993), for instance, the distributor "begged him" to cut a few minutes from the length, to keep it commercially viable: "Bob just thought the Antichrist was trying to destroy his art. They were well-meaning people who wanted him to get what he deserved, which was a big commercial hit. B... | 32,459 |
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critics. This is partly due to the satirical and comedy nature of many of his films. Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, compared the humor in his films to her father's films:
Altman made it clear that he did not like "storytelling" in his films, contrary to the way most television and mainst... | 32,460 |
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ambiguous endings. He especially loved many voices, sometimes arguing, sometimes agreeing, ideally overlapping, a cocktail party or a street scene captured as he experienced it. Julianne Moore, after seeing some of his movies, credits Altman's style of directing for her decision to become a film actress, ... | 32,461 |
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as they are, with life as it is lived." As a result, his films are often an indirect critique of American society.
For many of Altman's films, the satirical content is evident: "MASH" (1970), for example, is a satirical black comedy set during the Korean War; "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) is a satire on ... | 32,462 |
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doesn't draw blood." However, the satire of his films sometimes led to their failure at the box office if their satirical nature was not understood by the distributor. Altman blames the box office failure of "The Long Goodbye" (1973), a detective story, on the erroneous marketing of the film as a thriller... | 32,463 |
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tended to sketch out only a basic plot for the film, referring to the screenplay as a "blueprint" for action. By encouraging his actors to improvise dialogue, Altman thus became known as an "actor's director," a reputation that attracted many notable actors to work as part of his large casts. Performers e... | 32,464 |
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develop a character through improvisation during rehearsal or sometimes during the actual filming. Such improvisation was uncommon in film due to the high cost of movie production which requires careful planning, precise scripts, and rehearsal, before costly film was exposed. Nevertheless, Altman preferre... | 32,465 |
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the actors. "You never hear a director say that. That was truly an astonishing thing," she said. Others, such as Jennifer Jason Leigh, became creatively driven:
He liked working with many of the same performers for other films, including Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall and... | 32,466 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
in hindsight, Donald and I were two elitist, arrogant actors who really weren't getting Altman's genius." Others in the cast immediately appreciated Altman's directing style. René Auberjonois explains:
Unlike television and traditional films, Altman also avoided "conventional storytelling," and would opt... | 32,467 |
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Realistic sound and large ensemble casts.
Altman was one of the few filmmakers who "paid full attention to the possibilities of sound" when filming. He tried to replicate natural conversational sounds, even with large casts, by wiring hidden microphones to actors, then recording them talking over each ot... | 32,468 |
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a lot of stuff going on."
Altman first used overlapping soundtracks in "MASH" (1970), a sound technique which movie author Michael Barson describes as "a breathtaking innovation at the time." He developed it, Altman said, to force viewers to pay attention and become engaged in the film as if they were an... | 32,469 |
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their mind after seeing them again. British film critic, David Thomson, gave "Nashville" (1975) a bad review after watching it the first time, but later wrote, "But going back to "Nashville" and some of the earlier films, . . . made me reflect: It remains enigmatic how organized or purposeful "Nashville" ... | 32,470 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
blurred sound and images so slippery with zoom that there was no sense of composition. That is what makes "Nashville" so absorbing." Altman explained that to him such overlapping dialogue in his films was closer to reality, especially with large groups: "If you've got fourteen people at a dinner table, it... | 32,471 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
widescreen compositions, intended to capture the many people or activities taking place on screen at the same time. For some films, such as "McCabe and Mrs. Miller", he created a powerful visual atmosphere with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, such as scenes using fluid camerawork, zoom lenses, and a smok... | 32,472 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
in this film, and told him he "wanted the camera to move—all the time. Up. down. In and out. Side to side." Cinematographer Roger Deakins, discussing his use of zoom lenses, commented, "I would find it quite exciting to shoot a film with a zoom lens if it was that observational, roving kind of look that R... | 32,473 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
was known to be highly selective, often choosing music that he personally liked. Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who worked with him, notes that "Altman's use of music is always important," adding, "Bob loved his music, didn't he? My God, he loved his music". Since he was a "great fan" of Leonard Cohen's m... | 32,474 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
(1973), and employed Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks to score "Popeye" (1980).
A number of music experts have written about Altman's use of music, including Richard R. Ness, who wrote about the scores for many of Altman's films in an article, considered to be a valuable resource for understanding Altman... | 32,475 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
be too specific about the story," but to have the film itself be "rather a sort of jazz." Altman's technique of making the theme of a film a form of music, was considered "an experiment nobody has tried before," with Altman admitting it was risky. "I didn't know if it would work. . . . If people 'get it,'... | 32,476 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
(60 min.)
- "Basements" (1987) – two one-act plays by Harold Pinter: "The Dumb Waiter" and "The Room" (the former was released to video as its own feature by Prism Entertainment)
- "Tanner '88" (1988) – six-hour miniseries for HBO
- "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1988) – Television film based on the... | 32,477 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
– PBS special about the music from "Kansas City"
- "Tanner on Tanner" (2004) – two-hour miniseries for the Sundance Channel, a follow-up to "Tanner '88"
### Television episodes.
- "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1957–58)
- ep. 3–9: "The Young One" (air-date December 1, 1957)
- ep. 3–15: "Together" (a.d.... | 32,478 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
22, 1959)
- "written by Altman"
- ep No. 160 / 5–26: "Alicia Osante: Beauty and the Sailor" (a.d. March 18, 1959)
- ep No. 174 / 6–3: "Lorraine Dagget: The Beach Story" [story] (a.d. September 29, 1959)
- ep No. 183 / 6–12: "Andrew C. Cooley: Andy and Clara" (a.d. December 8, 1959)
- "Whirlybirds" (1... | 32,479 |
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/ 3–1: "Guilty of Old Age" (a.d. April 13, 1959)
- ep. No. 80 / 3–2: "A Matter of Trust" (a.d. April 6, 1959)
- ep. No. 81 / 3–3: "Christmas in June" (a.d. April 20, 1959)
- ep. No. 82 / 3–4: "Til Death Do Us Part" (unknown air-date, probably April 27, 1959)
- ep. No. 83 / 3–5: "Time Limit" (a.d. May ... | 32,480 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
Mysterious" (a.d. July 20, 1959)
- ep. No. 97 / 3–19: "The Black Maria" (a.d. August 10, 1959)
- ep. No. 98 / 3–20: "The Sitting Duck" (a.d. August 17, 1959)
- "U.S. Marshal" (original title: "Sheriff of Cochise") (1959)
- "verified"
- ep. 4–17: "The Triple Cross"
- ep. 4–23: "Shortcut to Hell"
- e... | 32,481 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
ep. 02 The Law and the Profits / Disaster
- ep. 03 Trouble at Elbow Bend
- ep. 04 The Lower Depths
- ep. 05 Tiger Culhane
- ep. 06 Moment of Terror
- ep. 07 Gino [also co-writer]
- ep. 14 Swing Shift / Trouble at the Orphanage
- ep. 17 Harry Maur
- ep. 20 The Town That Wouldn't Die
- ep. 22 Senor... | 32,482 |
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ep. "The Sound of Murder" (a.d. January 1, 1960)
- ep. "Death of a Dream"
- "The Gale Storm Show" aka "Oh! Susanna" (1960) ep. No. 125 / 4–25: "It's Magic" (a.d. March 17, 1960)
- "Bronco" (1960) ep No. 41 / 3–1: "The Mustangers" (a.d. October 17, 1960)
- "Maverick" (1960) ep. #90: "Bolt From the Blue... | 32,483 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
1961)
- ep. 1–31: "Royal Tour" (a.d. June 3, 1961)
- ep. 2–4: "Standing Room Only" (a.d. October 28, 1961)
- "Bonanza" (1960–61)
- ep. 2–13: "Silent Thunder" (a.d. December 10, 1960)
- ep. 2–19: "Bank Run" (a.d. January 28, 1961)
- ep. 2–25: "The Duke" (a.d. March 11, 1961)
- ep. 2–28: "The Rival" ... | 32,484 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
(1958) ep. 3–28: "The Murder Bond" (a.d. April 24, 1961)
- "Bus Stop" (1961–62)
- ep. 4: "The Covering Darkness" (a.d. October 22, 1961)
- ep. 5: "Portrait of a Hero" (a.d. October 29, 1961)
- ep. 8: "Accessory By Consent" (a.d. November 19, 1961)
- ep. 10: "A Lion Walks Among Us" (a.d. December 3, 1... | 32,485 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
18, 1963) – often incorrectly cited, Altman did not direct this
- "The Gallant Men" (1962) pilot: "Battle Zone" (a.d. October 5, 1962)
- "Combat!" (1962–63)
- ep. 1–1: "Forgotten Front" (a.d. October 2, 1962)
- ep. 1–2: "Rear Echelon Commandos" (a.d. October 9, 1962)
- ep. 1–4: "Any Second Now" (a.d.... | 32,486 |
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Suspense Theatre" (1963)
- ep 1–8: "The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley" (also writer) (a.d. December 12, 1963)
- ep 1–9: "The Hunt" (also writer) (a.d. December 19, 1963)
- ep 1–21: "Once Upon a Savage Night" (a.d. April 2, 1964)
- released as the television film "Nightmare in Chicago" in 1964
- "T... | 32,487 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
released on DVD as "Gun: Fatal Betrayal"; subsequently, the entire six-episode series was released.
- "Killer App" (1999) Unscreened pilot
# Awards and nominations.
Academy Awards:
- 1971: Best Director ("MASH", nominated)
- 1976: Best Director, Best Picture ("Nashville", nominated)
- 1993: Best Dir... | 32,488 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
nominated)
- 1993: Best Direction ("The Player", won)
- 2002: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ("Gosford Park", won)
- 2002: David Lean Award for Direction ("Gosford Park", nominated)
Berlin International Film Festival:
- 1976: Golden Berlin Bear ("Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting ... | 32,489 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
("A Prairie Home Companion", won)
Cannes Film Festival:
- 1970: Golden Palm ("MASH", won)
- 1972: Golden Palm ("Images", nominated)
- 1977: Golden Palm ("3 Women", nominated)
- 1986: Golden Palm ("Fool for Love", nominated)
- 1987: Golden Palm ("Aria ", nominated)
- 1992: Golden Palm ("The Player",... | 32,490 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
Award (won)
- 2005: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television ("Tanner on Tanner", nominated)
Primetime Emmy Awards:
- 1989: Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series ("Tanner '88: The Boiler Room", won)
- 1993: Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program ("Great Performances:... | 32,491 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
won)
- 1995: Best Feature ("Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle", nominated)
- 2000: Best Feature ("Cookie's Fortune", nominated)
- 2007: Best Director ("A Prairie Home Companion", nominated)
Venice Film Festival:
- 1993: Golden Lion ("Short Cuts", won)
- 1996: Career Golden Lion (won)
- 2000: Golde... | 32,492 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
as a director.
- Judith M. Kass. "Robert Altman: American Innovator" early (1978) assessment of the director's work and his interest in gambling. Part of Leonard Maltin's Popular Library filmmaker series.
- The English band Maxïmo Park have a song named "Robert Altman", a b-side to their single "Our Vel... | 32,493 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
Rick Armstrong, "Robert Altman: Critical Essays" Actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists reflect on Altman and his five-decade career...(McFarland, February 18, 2011)
- Mitchell Zuckoff, "Robert Altman: The Oral Biography." New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Description and details on ... | 32,494 |
43823 | Robert Altman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Altman | Robert Altman
sten to Robert Altman discussing his career – a British Library recording.
- Robert Altman bibliography via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
- Still up to mischief – "The Guardian", May 1, 2004
- "Reverse Shot" interview
- Ebert's Altman Home Companion
- Gerald Peary interview
- Literature on Robe... | 32,495 |
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Merced, California
Merced (Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of 2014, the city had a population of 81,743. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager go... | 32,496 |
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bus lines. It is approximately from Sacramento, from San Francisco, from Fresno, and from Los Angeles.
In 2005, the city became home to the 10th University of California campus, University of California, Merced (UC Merced), the first research university built in the U.S. in the 21st century.
# Comm... | 32,497 |
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Multicultural Arts Center and the . Though still growing, Merced has several shopping areas including the Merced Mall, anchored by Target, Sears, JCPenney and Kohl's, a strip mall located on the city's northwest side which includes Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and several restaurants. ... | 32,498 |
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area and the "Times" weekly newspaper has a circulation of over 5,000.
Homes at the median level in Merced had lost 62% of their value from the second quarter of 2006, when they peaked at $336,743, the biggest drop anywhere in the country, according to data provided to Forbes by Local Market Monitor... | 32,499 |
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