Saturday
Feb222025
Robert Altman @ 100: “Nashville”
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 6:00PM 
To continue celebrating Robert Atman’s centennial anniversary, I have decided to finally take care of a longtime cinematic blind spot: his seminal 1975 opus Nashville. Released during the heyday of New Hollywood, the film tracks the lives of twenty-four main characters — singers, dreamers, and others — as they navigate their lives in the titular city within five days as the presidential campaign of a populist candidate is set to mount a political rally cum concert.
For my first encounter with this film, I decided to watch this film twice within a three-day period. And how powerful the experience is...