Robert Altman's "Nashville" is one of the best political films ever

[deutsey]

What do you think?

Nashville is a 1975 American musical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of numerous awards and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's most accomplished films.

The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee. It has 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, and multiple storylines. The characters' efforts to succeed or hold on to their success are interwoven with the efforts of a political operative and a local businessman to stage a concert rally before the state's presidential primary for a populist outsider running for president of the United States on the Replacement Party ticket. In the film's final half-hour, most of the characters come together at the outdoor concert at the Parthenon in Nashville.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_%28film%29

[deutsey]

1. You may say that I ain't free but it don't worry me

[TreasonousBastard]

2. This is the guy who gave us MASH, McCabe and Mrs. Miller...

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, The Long Goodbye ...

And a whole bunch other good stuff.

Kinda tough to pick the "best" from a guy like that. Just lean back and enjoy.

(And thank your favorite deity that there are people like this.)

[triguy46]

3. One of the best of all time. Geraldine Chaplin.... (PLUS Spoiler Alert!)

And her waxing poetic over the school buses. Very good. But I wonder, do you feel this has aged well? neither of my very politically saavy kids see it as we did when it came out. They suffer through the periodness of it. What I have been able to do over the years is to enjoy others who see it for the first time and WHAM! at the end when they figure out the guy is going to shoot. That is a special moment.

[deutsey]

4. I think it aged well

The Replacement Party is a very prescient commentary on the Tea Party phenomenon.

And even overlooking that, the film is a powerful document capturing the shift that took place in the mid-'70s from progressivism to conservatism as a result of the failure of American progressivism in that era from political assassinations, corporatism, narcissism, and a general breakdown in a shared community.

Not all movies should be designed to entertain and spoon feed its audience with familiar complacancies, and I think this is a classic example of one doesn't .

[lame54]

5. check out Short-Cuts...

another Altman classic