Nashville
 | Directed by Robert Altman Starring: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield Paramount, 2000, DVD Customer Rating: 118 reviews Recommend |
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The drama and comedy of the lives of twenty-four major stars as seen in the five days they are in the country music capital of the world.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
This 1975 film sits near the top of any list of the best films of the 1970s, perhaps in the top five and, in some people's minds, at the pinnacle itself. Robert Altman, at his most Altmanesque, spins together plot strands involving two dozen people over the course of one particularly busy weekend in Music City, USA. Though several of the story lines deal with country-western stars — played by Henry Gibson, Ronee Blakley and Karen Black — the plot also deals with the country scene's wannabes, the business people who pull the strings and the operative for a mysterious presidential candidate who is trying to get the de facto endorsement of some of the country stars by having them appear at a rally for him. (The unknown but rocketing presidential aspirant was eerily echoed the next year, when Jimmy Carter came out of nowhere to win the presidency.) Blakley is heartbreakingly fragile as a Loretta Lynn-like singer on the verge of total mental meltdown, while Lily Tomlin is outstanding as a housewife-gospel singer who has a dalliance with a randy folk-rock cad, perfectly played by Keith Carradine (who won an Oscar for his song "I'm Easy"). The cast also includes Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Keenan Wynn, Shelley Duvall, Geraldine Chaplin (hilarious as a fatuous British TV journalist), Barbara Harris, Michael Murphy, and Ned Beatty, with cameos by Elliott Gould and Julie Christie as themselves. Next to Mean Streets, perhaps the most influential film of the decade. — Marshall Fine
Title: Nashville
Sales Rank: 7042 in DVD
Actor: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield
Director: Robert Altman
Studio: Paramount, 2000-08-15, Theatrical Release: 2000-08-15
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 160 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.14 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches, 0.2 pounds
- Wish I could rate this stinker a zero....
- I purchased this DVD in early December but "saved" it to "savor" later, like a fine wine or a much-loved book, something delicious to look forward to. So very many wonderful reviews and starring one of my very favorite actors, Keith Caradine...how could I have missed seeing this??
Better question..... sigh.....how could I go so wrong?
One reviewer even called it a "masterpiece". Well, it's… More reviews
- Henry Gibson shines (literally) as Haven Hamilton in 'Nashville' ...
- Not being much of a country-western fan or lover of 70's fashion (my eyes hurt after wincing from viewing the corny outfits in this movie --ouch!), the only real reason I could think to watch `Nashville' was due two of my favourite comedians from Laugh In - cute Henry Gibson and sweet Lily Tomlin. Real life, nice guy Gibson must have… More reviews
- some of the worst country western ever?
- At some level I felt that the film maker was making fun of
country western music. Maybe it was that he had very bad taste
in cowboy music?
The way be made the people in the movie sick in spirit
and in action was the reason I didn't like this movie.
It just felt like… More reviews
- Classic Country From the '70's
- I saw this upon it first movie theater appearances. LOVE IT then. LOVED it NOW. Remembered how Henry Gibson's role was 180 degrees from his persona on Laugh-in. Bought the soundtrack play it every chance I get More reviews
- One of Altman's Great Films!
- This film is an amazing classic done in the classic Altman style. A hodge podge of singers and performers crowd the movie to provide a feeling of what Nashville may be like, the country western capital of the world. The little dramas of its many characters bring together threads culminating in an assassination. Of course, in the music business fame is fleeting. Another rises to take their… More reviews
