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ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT: PART TWO (with Walter Chaw & Ryan Marker, and Alonso Duralde)

Screen Drafts

Clay Keller

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.7556 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 195 minutes

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Summary

The epic 4-part ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT continues, with author & critic Walter Chaw joining commissioner Ryan at the Draft Table to place picks #28 to #22 on the definitive list of 35 narrative feature films. Returning as guest co-commish is author & podcaster Alonso Duralde, providing trivia, insight, and tough love!

This episode is brought to you by the Film & Media Archive at WashU Libraries, celebrating 60 years of Kartemquin Films! This summer, experience the diversity of the Kartemquin catalogue with FREE screenings of Steve James' Hoop Dreams (June 28th), Bill Siegel's The Trials of Muhammad Ali, and Jerry Blumenthal & Gordon Quinn's Golub, all FREE at the Hi-Pointe Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Hoop Dreams Screening Information: https://library.washu.edu/events/hoop-dreams-screening/.

The Maid of McMillan Details & Screening: https://library.washu.edu/spec/themaidofmcmillan/

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The Film & Media Archive is a nationally recognized learning center, committed to preserving documentary film and media that chronicle American political and social movements. The FMA collections not only include finished work but also the diverse primary source materials that document the filmmaking process, such as original filmed interviews and outtakes, producers' research and notes, treatments, scripts, storyboards, and correspondence.

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0:00.0

Thank you. Welcome to Screen Drafts. The podcast where experts and enthusiasts Competitively collaborate in the creation of Screen Drafts. The podcast where experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric best of lists.

0:44.6

I'm Draft Commissioner Clay Keller here with me back again for part two of the Robert Altman Super Draft.

0:53.3

My guest co-commissioner, Mr. Alonzo Doralde.

0:57.1

Hey, thanks for having me.

0:59.3

Let's all get in a room and talk over each other.

1:03.3

Alonzo, you're back?

1:05.2

Yes.

1:06.1

You joined us as co-commish for part one,

1:09.1

and you had such a good time.

1:12.1

I did. And frankly, this went in such

1:14.6

random, bizarre, and unexpected directions that I'm like,

1:18.7

I got to see where this is going. So, you know,

1:21.0

I couldn't tear myself away.

1:22.7

Gotta see what happens in the next chapter

1:26.4

of this terrifying and confounding story. Ryan Marker is at

1:32.2

the GM table today. My normal commissioner. Yes. Back at it. I'm very, very, very nervous

1:41.1

for this. Yes, I'm still a little traumatized from part one.

1:46.6

Here we are for part two.

1:47.8

And yeah, you know, onwards and upwards.

1:51.1

Onwards and upwards, we are tackling in this series all, what was it, 35?

1:59.0

I think 35.

2:00.0

All 35 of director Robert Altman's theatrical narrative feature films wow look at that

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