I originally saw this film in the 1970’s when it was released. I really liked it then and I still like it now. There are a lot of layers to it. It has humor, drama, musical entertainment, social commentary etc etc.. I would recommend it. (It was one of Pauline Kael’s favorites).
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2-1/2 hours of annoyance. Kept waiting for something worthwhile or funny to happen but found myself increasingly frustrated. Not one peaceful moment in the entire movie. Felt like I was trying to make sense of comments made among a throng of noisy people in what seemed to be every scene. If the music was halfway decent the flick might have even been enjoyable. And the music was definitely not the Nashville sound. The songs were as out-of-tune as the movie.
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Five days in Nashville, with 24 different characters, during America's 200th birthday. An outstanding character study, interwoven with a Grand Ol' Opry background. If you like country music you will enjoy determining which character is based on a real life Nashville music star. I liked viewing this movie best with the dialogue on the bottom of the screen since Director Robert Altman lets you often infer what was said. Another plus is Altman let the actors improvise their own dialogue and write the songs used. This allowed the actors to showcase their acting skills, in a way that will amaze you. For example, Henry Gibson, was truly outstanding.
I generally love Robert Altman's work.M*A*S*H, The Player,Gosford Park etc. were brilliant.I had been hearing about "Nashville" for years but had never seen it. I lived in Nashville for 12 years and like the people in the movie I was in the music business.The Keith Caradine character certainly exists in "real life" and certain aspects of some of the others but on the whole I found these characters to be cartoons who sang REALLLLY BAD songs. The only decent songs in the movie were the two by Keith Carradine.It is apparent to me that Mr. Altman didn't "get" country music.There are certainly some eccentric folks in Music City but they only get away with it if they're extremely talented. Altman's stereotypes were crazy and they sucked. I understand why the locals hated the film when it came out.No Robert,not because you didn't use their songs.Because you didn't use GOOD songs and you were not astute enough about country music to know the difference.To paraphrase Shakespeare,in Nashville, "the songs's the thing." I'm sure this film will be entertaining to people who aren't country music afficiandos laughing at the hillbillies as played by folks from New York & LA and the stupid songs they sang.I was not amused.Read full review
I was fortunate to do some of the publicity for this film when it was released. I lived the film and hadn’t seen it in decades as it never seems to play on tv. The quality of the dvd is excellent as well.
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