'Altman': Film Review — hollywoodreporter.com

The first but not, one would hope, the last bio-documentary about the late, great American maverick director, Ron Mann’s Altman has its value as an admiring, loving, family-endorsed portrait of an ever-restless artist who both worked within and bucked the system while turning out nearly 40 idiosyncratic films in as many years. But everyone knows that Robert Altman’s life and career were far more turbulent and tempestuous than the one depicted here, so a more uncensored documentary would one day serve as a welcome companion piece to this smoothly assembled, understandably laundered account. World premiered at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater on June 20, this original documentary for Epix, The Movie Network and Movie Central will turn up on home screens in August.

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