Nashville

Let me begin by saying I love "The Player" and I love "Shortcuts" - two fantastic films. However, the two hour and forty minute debacle that is "Nashville" has nothing to say. Sure, it's sort of about political turmoil and sort... Full review

Director Robert Altman has assembled a massive cast of brilliant actors to create this rollicking and rambling masterpiece. While skewering the often intertwined worlds of entertainment and politics, Altman and company pretty much play it straight therefore heightening the satire.... Full review

One of my all time favorite movies. I think Altman is a genius. The separate, but inter-connecting stiry lines were perfect. Brilliant performances bt Lily Tomlin and (surprisingly) Henry Gibson. Just could go on and on. A must see!... Full review

Robert Altman is an extremely divisive director in the sense that you either "get it" or you don't--and those who don't despise his work and take considerable pleasure in sneering at NASHVILLE in particular. But there is no way around... Full review

I saw Nashville when it was first shown, billed as Altman's "birthday card" to America on the occasion of the bicentennial. The greatest tribute I can pay is that, despite its frequent shifts of location, many individual scenes and characterizations,... Full review

I suppose the brilliance of "Nashville" is that almost 30 years after its initial release, Robert Altman's slice of Americana has lost none of its punch. Despite being made in the Watergate and Vietnam era, the film remains relevant as... Full review

Can't believe I've taken this long to reply re: Nashville. It is simply the movie that has had the biggest influence on my life since I first had the honor of viewing it one hot August day in Seattle in... Full review

The opening shot of "Nashville" shows a van with a loudspeaker offering platitudes from Hal Phillip Walker, Replacement Party candidate for President and the perfect middleman for the movie "Nashville," which like the never-seen candidate offers a series of apparently... Full review

Nashville couldn't understand "Nashville," and no wonder. Anyone who watches "Nashville" for insights to country music probably views "The Godfather" for tips about olive oil. Altman's 1975 film uses country music and the people who perform, listen to and produce... Full review

After having seen this film for the third time - the first was in film school many years ago - I'm struck by the amount of action going on within many of the shots. Mention is frequently made of Altman's use... Full review

Nashville may not necessarily be the most successful film to attempt to locate the similarities between the worlds of entertainment and politics....At the time that Nashville was made it was still rather audacious to suggest....it certainly stands as the most insistent film to ever establish the link.....Barbara Jean exudes the image of the sensitive, perhaps even fragile, country music diva..... ... Full Review

Robert Altman's "Secret Honor," which is one of the most scathing, lacerating and brilliant movies of 1984, attempts to answer our questions.....Hollywood cast him into the outer darkness in the 1980s, when his eclectic vision didn't fit with movies made by marketing studies.....His movies always seem perfectly at home wherever they are....But it's a better movie than "M*A*S*H....It's that good a movie..... ... Full Review

His films are often cynical and funny, but also unexpectedly warm and humane.....finally, to that oddest of all Nashville landmarks, the Parthenon.....Even though I grew up in Tennessee, I didn't see Altman's most successful "Altman-esque" film, Nashville , until I was in graduate school.....It's nobody's favorite Altman film.....But his best films are so dense that they take unpacking.... ... Full Review

Altman's characters don't just vie for space, but compete to be heard:....is pursued by Keith Carradine's vain, predatory folk singer.....is Geraldine Chaplin's monstrous Opal, a self-absorbed babbler supposedly making a documentary for the "British Broadcasting Company"..... ... Full Review

Everyone in the movie is somehow connected with the music business and the climax takes place at a phoney classical building in the Greek style put up to symbolise democracy for the centennial celebrations in 1876 at a time when Nashville was fancifully called 'the Athens of the south'. ... Full Review

A satire of a satire made with love: if that description of the revue "Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman 's 'Nashville' " sounds self-contradictory (how many satires emanate from love?), it evokes the heartfelt... ... Full Article

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Robert Altman's best films contain ironies and counter-ironies in such copious quantity that it's tough to know which in particular to cite. What's the most indicative example of them all--Sidney Chaplin's BBC reporter, Opel, thrusting her microphone and her pretentious... ... Full Article

Nashville is a snapshot of 24 characters over a 5-day long weekend in Nashville; from a white gospel singer with two deaf children (Lily Tomlin) to the silent but ubiquitous tricycle man (Jeff Goldblum) who never says a word, and... ... Full Article

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