Robert Altman just died. He was 81 years old, but he still seemed pretty spry to me. He was one of those directors who was so prolific, it was easy to forget how many fantastic films he’d made. M.A.S.H, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, 3 Women, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, California Split, The Long Goodbye … and those are just the all-time classics. I recently started going through his back catalog, and it contains more winners than I would have imagined. Sarah’s friend Mark from work with turned me on to Secret Honor, a screen version of a one-man show about Richard Nixon starring Philp Baker Hall. Really good. And who even knew he directed a science fiction movie starring Paul Newman, or a movie based on a hilarious series of articles from National Lampoon magazine? Sadly, Altman will never again make a movie that we never knew existed. It is a blue day for film geeks everywhere.