A Perfect Couple. 1979. USA. Directed by Robert Altman. 110 min.
Screenplay by Altman, Alan F. Nicholls. With Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Tito Vandis. In the year that Blake Edwards’s bawdy sex comedy 10 stole the box office, Altman’s surprisingly good-natured riff on romantic comedy was largely neglected. A dating-weary middle-aged businessman from a staunchly Greek family takes up with a younger Bohemian musician in a traveling rock band, eventually choosing a life of uncertainty over loneliness. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
The Kathryn Reed Story. 1965. Directed by Robert Altman. 15 min.
The director’s home-movie valentine to his wife. Digital video presentation courtesy the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.