Philip Baker Hall's stage monodrama, featuring the emotional, venomous, and anguished monologue of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, has become one of the most ambiguous presidential portrayals and a testament to Hall's acting talent.
35mm print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Distinguished director, screenwriter and producer Robert Altman was born in 1925 and died in 2006 having made several dozen cinema and television films. The breakthrough in his career came with the anti-war satire MASH, in which he presented a community in typical Altman style that characterises his very best work – based on episodic narration and innovative montage of image and sound. Altman often uses irony to show how society’s traditional roles, social conventions and cultural myths condition people.
1970 MASH
1975 Nashville
1977 Trzy kobiety / 3 Women
1992 Gracz / The Player
1993 Na skróty / Short Cuts
2001 Gosford Park