I almost can't talk about this film without getting a little choked up. It's a cluster of sad people who are trapped in these personas they've made for themselves. I don't think a better film has yet to be made about this thing we call AMERICA, where fame, politics, music, dreams fulfilled, dreams shattered...gah! "Nashville" is what it means to be alive. I must point out the most moving moment for me - - when Haven Hamilton's son, who is probably the most decent human in the movie, decides to let his guard down and sing one of his own compositions for Opal, the terrifyingly shallow BBC journalist. His song is sweet and heartfelt and honest, everything you'd hope for in a song - - and before he's done, she leaps up, clearly not even paying attention, and dashes off to talk to some "Famous" person. It's this tiny moment in a film made up of tiny moments that add up to a towering statement. Ummm...can ya' tell I dig this flick a little? :D
It is such a great experience. I know what you mean about getting choked up about it. I would love to do a series where I dedicate a video to each character. I don't know what scene moved me the most. Scott Glenn's character was the one I sympathized with the most I think. I tear up at the "This is Nashville" line at the end too. Jeff, you have inspired me to make a series about this film.
Ryan Chattaway Oh man, yeah, Scott Glenn. I don't think he has more than two lines in the whole thing and yet he's this sort of doomed guardian angel...doomed, I guess, to know that all his efforts were never enough. God almighty. What national treasures, both Altman AND this movie! Interestingly, the writer, Joan Tewkesbury, didn't do much before or since. I think she may have co-written Thieves Like Us (which I also adore) and then some small TV work later. But when you think of the writer of something of this magnitude suddenly fallen silent after....it's as if she said everything she had to say about "The World" with this one picture. Which, i guess, in hindsight, I completely understand. Yes, do proceed with your Nashville Series! I'll be front row, center, sir!
I liked the film when I first saw it even though I was a little disappointed that it didn't poke fun at country music. Ronee Blakely blew me away with her Loretta Lynn like character, and longtime MGM staple Keenan Wynn was heartbreaking in the part of a man who was losing his wife and seemingly only friend. I think about the film often now and, of course, no longer think country music is a joke. A great great film!
Saw it the first time as a movie obsessed teenager in the 70s. By the half-way point I already thought it was the greatest film I had ever seen. I can't imagine anyone being bored by the film, but I've never understood people, I don't even try anymore.
I love this video, man. It’s a really honest review and I love that you shared how this film had to grow on you over a few years. I’ve had that so many times, but those films almost always end up leaving the deepest mark on my life. McCabe and Mrs Miller was actually one of those, for me (another Altman film, ha!)
Nashville is one of my favorite movies. I was hesitant about it at first because I passionately hate country music, but in the end, the fact that it focused on the country music scene didn’t matter.
i always feel a special kinship to someone who likes this film. It's one of my all-time favorites. The problem with it is that it's difficult to introduce to other people. The non-linear plot and the Altman-esque technique of having actors ad-lib and talk over each other seems to be for select tastes. I try to sell it as a snapshot of American life - with all the tacky hairstyles and the twangy country music (which is more brilliant that bad) - because that's essentially what it is. You kind of have to let the film just carry you sort of like you're visiting a strange town for a weekend. That doesn't work for the average movie goer, unfortunately.
I must be weird, I watched the movie and never got bored, and I was 19! Although someone did tell me they thought it was slow so maybe I powered through. I'd seen clips on TCM and was already interested based on that so that's where I'm assigning the credit! It was the scene when Elliott Gould shows up. I didn't know if it was just a cameo or if he was playing a himself/(or) a form of himself throughout the movie (I wouldn't put it past Altman since they'd worked together before) and the idea captured my imagination. Perhaps because I'd already seen The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy, I kinda already knew what to expect from movies released in that time period.
I reckon I liked it a little more than the first time, and I suspect this feeling will deepen, it's one of these movies you've got to give them a second chance, maybe a third, fourth, it gets better at each viewing. It's not much a film you watch than a sort of emotional journey you experience and that takes its full meaning during the climax, when you know what happens in the end, you see the film with different eyes.
I'm listening to this video with interest. I have not seen Nashville yet. I remember when it came out... I like the music you have on here. Is it from the film? Either way,, good choice.
![Quando Rondo - Life Goes On [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eIf3fhMXAow/mqdefault.jpg)
I almost can't talk about this film without getting a little choked up. It's a cluster of sad people who are trapped in these personas they've made for themselves. I don't think a better film has yet to be made about this thing we call AMERICA, where fame, politics, music, dreams fulfilled, dreams shattered...gah! "Nashville" is what it means to be alive.
I must point out the most moving moment for me - - when Haven Hamilton's son, who is probably the most decent human in the movie, decides to let his guard down and sing one of his own compositions for Opal, the terrifyingly shallow BBC journalist. His song is sweet and heartfelt and honest, everything you'd hope for in a song - - and before he's done, she leaps up, clearly not even paying attention, and dashes off to talk to some "Famous" person.
It's this tiny moment in a film made up of tiny moments that add up to a towering statement.
Ummm...can ya' tell I dig this flick a little? :D
It is such a great experience. I know what you mean about getting choked up about it. I would love to do a series where I dedicate a video to each character. I don't know what scene moved me the most. Scott Glenn's character was the one I sympathized with the most I think. I tear up at the "This is Nashville" line at the end too. Jeff, you have inspired me to make a series about this film.
Ryan Chattaway Oh man, yeah, Scott Glenn. I don't think he has more than two lines in the whole thing and yet he's this sort of doomed guardian angel...doomed, I guess, to know that all his efforts were never enough.
God almighty. What national treasures, both Altman AND this movie!
Interestingly, the writer, Joan Tewkesbury, didn't do much before or since. I think she may have co-written Thieves Like Us (which I also adore) and then some small TV work later. But when you think of the writer of something of this magnitude suddenly fallen silent after....it's as if she said everything she had to say about "The World" with this one picture.
Which, i guess, in hindsight, I completely understand.
Yes, do proceed with your Nashville Series! I'll be front row, center, sir!
I liked the film when I first saw it even though I was a little disappointed that it didn't poke fun at country music. Ronee Blakely blew me away with her Loretta Lynn like character,
and longtime MGM staple Keenan Wynn was heartbreaking in the part of a man who was losing his wife and seemingly only friend. I think about the film often now and, of course, no longer think country music is a joke. A great great film!
Not that decent since he's willing to go to a striptease show.
Saw it the first time as a movie obsessed teenager in the 70s. By the half-way point I already thought it was the greatest film I had ever seen. I can't imagine anyone being bored by the film, but I've never understood people, I don't even try anymore.
I love this video, man. It’s a really honest review and I love that you shared how this film had to grow on you over a few years. I’ve had that so many times, but those films almost always end up leaving the deepest mark on my life. McCabe and Mrs Miller was actually one of those, for me (another Altman film, ha!)
Nashville is one of my favorite movies. I was hesitant about it at first because I passionately hate country music, but in the end, the fact that it focused on the country music scene didn’t matter.
i always feel a special kinship to someone who likes this film. It's one of my all-time favorites. The problem with it is that it's difficult to introduce to other people. The non-linear plot and the Altman-esque technique of having actors ad-lib and talk over each other seems to be for select tastes. I try to sell it as a snapshot of American life - with all the tacky hairstyles and the twangy country music (which is more brilliant that bad) - because that's essentially what it is. You kind of have to let the film just carry you sort of like you're visiting a strange town for a weekend. That doesn't work for the average movie goer, unfortunately.
I must be weird, I watched the movie and never got bored, and I was 19! Although someone did tell me they thought it was slow so maybe I powered through. I'd seen clips on TCM and was already interested based on that so that's where I'm assigning the credit! It was the scene when Elliott Gould shows up. I didn't know if it was just a cameo or if he was playing a himself/(or) a form of himself throughout the movie (I wouldn't put it past Altman since they'd worked together before) and the idea captured my imagination.
Perhaps because I'd already seen The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy, I kinda already knew what to expect from movies released in that time period.
@Randy White Was it planned or did he visit the filming and they decided to toss him in the movie
@Randy White If he had another film coming out around that time, that had to be a great promotion!
I reckon I liked it a little more than the first time, and I suspect this feeling will deepen, it's one of these movies you've got to give them a second chance, maybe a third, fourth, it gets better at each viewing. It's not much a film you watch than a sort of emotional journey you experience and that takes its full meaning during the climax, when you know what happens in the end, you see the film with different eyes.
>haven’t any other Robert Altman films?
Have you seen Popeye?
The music is too loud
Why the guy shoots her?
I'm listening to this video with interest. I have not seen Nashville yet. I remember when it came out... I like the music you have on here. Is it from the film? Either way,, good choice.