NASHVILLE (1975) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Robert Altman
Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin,
Ronee Blakely, Henry Gibson, Karen Black,
Michael Murphy, David Hayward, Keenan Wynn,
Ned Beatty, Shelley Duvall, Scott Glenn,
Gwen Welles, Barbara Harris, Jeff Goldblum
Robert Altman's kaleidoscopic look at America on the eve of the Bicentennial follows 24 characters whose paths cross and recross over a few summer days in the Country Music Capital of the World. Some are denizens of the music industry. Some are involved in the political campaign of an independent presidential candidate, a phantom whose rhetorical slogans, blasted from loudspeakers, punctuate the film. Others filter in - a drifter, a soldier, a groupie, a waitress, a magician on a three-wheeled motorcycle, a crackpot reporter from the BBC - their disparate lives spinning together, sometimes briefly touching, under Altman's seemingly effortless control. A freewheeling, crazy-quilt satire - funny, exhilarating, annihilating. Altman's masterpiece.
Henry Gibson
(1935-2009)
