In Robert Altman’s biting Hollywood satire, hotshot studio executive Griffin Mill (played by Tim Robbins—in one of his finest performances) starts receiving death threats from a rejected screenwriter, leading him to accidentally kill a man and begin courting the dead man’s girlfriend. As police investigate the murder, Griffin concentrates on the production of a film he thinks might reinvigorate his career.

35mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive playing on September 20.