Altmania

Moving ahead with the Tanner mini-series, we get into our most relevant episodes so far. Talking protests, television, the war on drugs - and we bring judgment day to Chris Matthews.    Here's some links from our intro if you want to help some people out fighting for this cause today.  https://campusbailfunds.com/ http://bit.ly/CampSupportLogistics https://linktr.ee/columbiasjp https://linktr.ee/c...

We're kicking off our three-part mini-series on the Altman HBO series TANNER '88! We get into Doonesbury, talk about presidents, the 90s handheld camera vibe, smoking indoors, and we reveal our favorite Beatle.  Enjoy!!

It's our last movie of the 80s, and Bob's final TV movie. We also compare this with the 2023 adaptation by William Friedkin, talk about him and Altman's careers, court room thrillers, military jargon, naval ships, Eric Bogosian's incredible acting. This one's got it all! Salute bobbleheads Music: The Supreme Jubilees - It'll All Be Over The Supreme Jubilees - We'll Understand Mac Demarco - Publix...

We've dragged our feet long enough, but it's time for us to get into Altman's final movie from the year 1987. After all these surprise hits in the 80s Bob era, we finally hit a big old goose egg, and it's Beyond Therapy.  We get into Altman and Christopher Durang's differing scripts, Jeff Goldblum being bad at improv, 80s yuppie freaks, and we try to figure out who is to blame for this movie. We h...

It's TV movie week as we look into the 1987 2-parter BASEMENTS, Altman's adapted version of two Harold Pinter works.   We get into John Travolta's British accent, Tom Conti's voice, Linda Hunt's voice, it's a voice heavy episode! We talk Harold Pinter and have a fun time dissecting these two strange but interesting stories. Check this one out sometime! It's a fascinating watch and available on the...

Huge episode this week! We're talking about Bob's 1987 (filmed in 1983) movie, OC AND STIGGS. A crazy teen-movie satire that was way ahead of its time in the stuff it was even satirizing - that's the power of BOB (get it, its like a reference to 80s movie back to the future).    Seriously though, we have to thank Hunter Stephenson very much for their article ' "The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting...

We're talking THE LAUNDROMAT. Is it Robert Altman's 1985 HBO tv movie? Or is it something else? Tune in and find out!

We return with the Sam Shepard-penned Altman movie, returning to his unique visual style and getting back into a bigger budget for CANNON FILMS. We talk everything from Harry Dean Stanton, Cannon Productions, girls in Cookie Monster pajamas, Sam Shepard looking like Denis Leary, and the wickedly talented Kim Basinger.    Thanks for sticking with us! We love you all   Music (can you tell what theme...

Altmania returns with our wonderful correspondent Valerie (@stealingvalerie). We talk all things Nixon, Nixon in movies, as a president, and as just a big loser in life. We also talk at length about Philip Baker Hall and his astounding performance in this movie, truly a one-of-a-kind man. This episode was so much fun, we hope you enjoy!  Music: NIXON NOW - Nixon campaign song Fuyu Goe - Haruomi Ho...

It's a new week of Altman's 1980s theater era. This time we're talking Streamers, a scathing anti-war movie that gets into some pretty bleak places. We're praising David Alan Grier, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright - its a heavy one. We lighten the mood with some humor, but the movie is pretty dreary (in a good way). Bless you all

It's another week of Altmania, this time we're reunited with the lovely Sandy Dennis alongside Cher, Karen Black, Marta Heflin, and Kathy Bates in 5 and Dime (I'm not writing the whole name its long). We just go on in this episode about these incredible performances, how this movie stands up in the hall of fame of queer cinema, and we share some Cher stories along the way. Go watch this one!

We wanted to talk more about Popeye so here's a bonus ep, just Este and I chatting about some stuff we might've missed. We also talk (spoiler free) about The Curse wrapping up, some creative talk. Just some good old fashioned poddin'   music neil young - cowgirl in the sand jon brion - overture random song from ryan's demos jon brion - tabla dreaming on a cloud - the tornados

We're joined this week by our wonderful friends Ian and Jake from Pod Casty for Me on the beautiful island of Sweethaven to discuss POPEYE. There's lots of great jokes and laughs, and we get into this production that is maybe more entertaining than the actual movie itself. There's Robert Evans impressions, lots of cocaine talk, and a whole lot to share with Popeye.    Check out Pod Casty for Me wh...

It's the return from our holiday hiatus as we begin the new year and new era of 1980's Robert Altman. Apologies for a little bit of a low-energy episode, we're recovering from the holidays. We talk about the funny ensemble comedy HealtH, a movie that is currently on the brink of becoming lost media. You can find it on YouTube in really low quality, but it's otherwise completely unavailable on home...

It's the end of the year and the end of the 70s for Robert Altman, so we decided to take a look back at the movies we've watched so far. Then we hand out some of the first annual BOB AWARDS, our handpicked awards for some categories we created. Then, we end the episode ranking our favorite movies from this decade. This one was a lot of fun, so we hope you enjoy!

We've reached our final Altman movie of the 1970s! It's a romantic comedy starring Paul Dooley and Marta Heflin; it's quirky, weird, funny, and a little messy. We talk about all that stuff, plus Este shares a very funny first date story, and we just have a very fun time chatting about this movie. Hope you like it! What a crazy trip it's been so far (keep an eye out next week for a bonus episode 19...

This one's maybe our goofiest episode yet, we're talking about Altman's 1979 sci-fi postapocalyptic gambling thriller set in the future, starring Paul Newman. We get into the rushed and weird production of this movie, including why it has 4 credited writers. And we also just joke around a lot and talk about what made this movie feel so bizarre and out of place in Altman's filmography. Really fun e...

We've returned from our thanksgiving break to visit the first of what we call Altman's "dark age", it's A Wedding. We get into wedding movies, how this movie was written by 3 people, and just gush over how funny and weird this one is. We recommend everybody check this out, it's hard to find but hopefully it can get restored someday.  -- Intro / outro music by Ryan E. Torgeson

This week we discuss the third film of Robert Altman's "dream movies"; we're talking about 3 Women (1977) starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule. We also chat a little bit about the new show The Curse from Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. Fun episode, its great to be back, peace and love!   -- Music by Ryan E. Torgeson

It's a chill week here on Altmania as we come down from our Nashville high. We get into this underappreciated Altman / Paul Newman joint and also get into what doesn't work for this movie and why it's not really talked about. It's a pretty interesting little movie overall so we recommend you check it out sometime. Peace and love   Intro and outro music by Ryan E. Torgeson  

We've got so much to talk about here - huge cast, huge soundtrack, huge movie. It's Robert Altman's magnum opus, Nashville. So many characters to talk about, so little time. Just kidding we have a lot of time and this is actually our longest episode yet. Hope you like it!   Peace and love :)  

It's time for another incredible Altman movie, this one might even be called a "deep cut", although it's got a lot of good attention in the last 10+ years. We're talking about California Split (1974), a gambling comedy starring Elliott Gould and George Segal. This one's an absolute blast and we finally let loose our love of Elliott Gould, possibly the best Altman movie opening next to The Player a...

We get into a less recognized, but still important Altman movie, Thieves Like Us. We're talking Coca-Cola, physical media, the Carradines, all that good stuff you come here to enjoy.  Thank you to everyone who's given us a chance so far, whether you're a friend or just coming by to hear about some movies or whatever, we love making this show so thank you. Have a great day

We took a week off for the show, but we've returned with a big episode. It's The Long Goodbye (like the song), and we've got two amazing guests to help us chat about it, Kurt and Chris from Blood Knife Magazine and Podside Picnic. There's sooo much to talk about. We get into how this movie flips the noir genre, the general malaise of this era of the '70s, and Este shares a spooky story with us. Th...

We're back baby, it's time for IMAGES - Altman's only ever true horror movie, and one of the few movies he wrote himself. We talk about spaghetti and salad, mirrors, lenses, windows, and we also mess up the names of the characters at least 5 times. It's Altmania, baby! Lets go.   Music: Mac DeMarco - 20210630 Lou Reed & John Cale - Images