{"id":162382,"date":"2026-02-20T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162382"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:32:41","slug":"robert-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162382","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe greatest films are the ones that leave you not able to explain, but you know that you have experienced something special.&#8221; &#8212; Robert Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/77b6e6fea170315c543da80a11584a9a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166037\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s his birthday today. <\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite film-makers, but I haven&#8217;t written all that much about him. I love my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/brightlightsfilm.com\/death-becomes-robert-altmans-prairie-home-companion\/#.YNsezyOZNmA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Callahan&#8217;s piece on <i>Prairie Home Companion<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I did write <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=141574\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the booklet essay for the Arrow Films release of <i>Gosford Park<\/i><\/a>, which I re-printed on my site. <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s his birthday today. One of my favorite film-makers, but I haven&#8217;t written all that much about him. I love my friend Dan Callahan&#8217;s piece on Prairie Home Companion. I did write the booklet essay for the Arrow Films release &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,4,39],"tags":[388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162382"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185406,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162382\/revisions\/185406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}