Nashville
1975 Directed by Robert Altman
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This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. Barbara Jean is the reigning queen of Nashville but is near collapse. Linnea and Delbert Reese have a shaky marriage and 2 deaf children. Opal is a British journalist touring the area. These and other stories come together in a dramatic climax.
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It's been almost exactly 20 years since I first and last saw Nashville. I can recall renting it from Crazy Mike's Video with my mom not long after we saw Short Cuts in the theater. I could actually still remember quite a few specifics from the film, too. But that span of time between watches is all but a slap in the face to what is one of the best films of the 70's.
It is a massive and sprawling piece with over 20 "main" characters, and somewhere around an hour of musical performances. It goes without saying, but the cast is absolutely phenomenal. Beside the fact that the dialogue is entirely improvised, the actors not only performed their own…
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The apex of Altman's creative powers, watching the characters in Nashville is the equivalent of seeing a master juggler throw uncountable flesh-slicing machetes into the air and catching them without blinking. Masterful storytelling, the 70s-ness is so sprawling and carefree. The songs are hysterical and ingenious. "I'm Easy" is one of the great cinematic moments of the era. Lily Tomlin's face is priceless.
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NASHVILLE doesn't seem like a movie that was _made_; it feels as if it sprung wholly formed onto a screen. How can such a huge, sprawling film seem so effortless.
And when I think of movies that seem inherently, essentially American, I think ROCKY, GOODFELLAS, and now NASHVILLE.
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I had to bump this up to a 5 star movie from my 4 star rating. We watched this for movie night this week, and I was startled by how much this movie affected me.
If it has a flaw, it is that the run time is too long. There is so much going on in this film, that it is impossible to even attempt to suggest what to cut out, but I think the movie could have been tighter and the end could have had an even bigger impact if it was kept right to 2 hours.
I also forgot how much music is in this film. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a movie named NASHVILLE has…
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Robert Altman's Nashville has been on my watchlist for a long time - almost a year. And finally I've gotten around to seeing it, and I can promise that this first viewing will not be the last.
Nashville is a fantastic film about a great city that is filled with sad people who disguise their sadness and emotions with music. They sing so passionately that this music turns from a disguise to an actual realization of happiness, and even when terrible events occur such as the one that closes this film, they find themselves turning to music to cheer themselves up - indeed, after the devastating occurance in the final ten minutes of the movie, the way the mood is…
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The quintessential Robert Altman film. When it was released in 1975 it was recongnized as that rarity - an American film that truly was an art film. Nashville is many things - a musical, a satire, a comedy, and a portrait of America at a particular time and a particular place. Altman wanted to take a look at the state of the nation on the eve of the country's 200th birthday in 1976. And though the film is a snapshot of the 1970s, the film remains all too relevant today in its vicious satire of Amercian politics and mores. A great film that also happens to be my personal favorite movie.
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masterpiece
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At first I wasn't quite sure about Altman's American epic. The free form narrative, the sheer amount of characters, and... the country music. But really though I really found the subplots pretty interesting. I think it definitely tackles the Nashville music scene well. It does take some focus to really watch the whole film, but overall it's a good watch.
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Built in a organic and naturalistic way, Nashville offers a mosaic of American life that is both long removed and all too familiar.
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I had to bump this up to a 5 star movie from my 4 star rating. We watched this for movie night this week, and I was startled by how much this movie affected me.
If it has a flaw, it is that the run time is too long. There is so much going on in this film, that it is impossible to even attempt to suggest what to cut out, but I think the movie could have been tighter and the end could have had an even bigger impact if it was kept right to 2 hours.
I also forgot how much music is in this film. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a movie named NASHVILLE has…
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Starting to think I'm not an Altman kind of guy.
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Hated it for the first ten minutes, thought it mediocre midway though, liked it at the end and then loved it an hour after finishing it. Perhaps it needed to linger on my palette a bit, and now i find I'm eager to revisit it.
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This movie sucked.
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Slow film. Powerful ending.
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Second viewing.
Nashville is a fairly good film with a great soundtrack.
My full thoughts here:
www.everyrobertaltmanmovie.blogspot.ca/2013/03/nashville-1975.html