Altman, Audience, Corwin

Studio 360

This week in Studio 360, host Kurt Andersen talks with Robert Altman, one of America’s great movie directors. Altman is the auteur who made Gosford Park, Short Cuts, Nashville, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. His new film is The Company, a fictional documentary about the Joffrey Ballet. We’ll look at art, like Altman’s, that demands that the audience play an active role, such as the work of one visual artist whose diagrams of scandals make viewers question whatthey really know. We’ll also hear from a writer Altman cites as his biggest influence — radio dramatist Norman Corwin.

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