Nashville

what an amazing movie. it really is a case study in master filming, robert altman's magnum opus nashville is like no film before it and like no film (although some come close) after it. it's a kaleidoscope of characters and music and events that build to a crescendo and then knock you off your feet. there isn't much of a story yet a complete and rounded story plays out. there are allegories to america and people and the american people that are still relevant today. there are amazing songs and fantastic performances. there is humour and heartbreak, sadness and tension, violence and read more

nashville really is unlike any other film. it features a whole slew of characters each with their own narrative arc that just happen to pass at various points. there is no main plot or main character, there is just a bunch of people living their lives in the absurd environment that is nashville. it shouldn't work, but it does. despite it's haphazard approach, the characters and their behaviors are so natural that the narrative almost constructs itself around them. you aren't watching a story, you are just observing these people's lives during a few very busy days. there are some characters... read more

Nashville: America Singing By Molly Haskell ESSAYS — DEC 2, 2013 If Robert Altmans radically freewheeling, multicharacter country-music extravaganza didnt revolutionize filmmaking as some of its partisans predicted it would, it did capture as no other film has ever done the full complexity of America, rich with contradictions, rife with neurosis, and convulsed by the celebrity madness of ambition and envy. Nor does the film seem dated forty years later. If anything, the America that Nashville doled out with stunning prescience in 1975 has become only more so in the subsequent four read more