- Actors: Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Karen Black
- Directors: Robert Altman
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Paramount
- Release Date: May 15 2012
- Run Time: 160 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305918880
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#15,211 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #43 in DVD > Drama > Love & Romance > Infidelity & Betrayal
- #78 in DVD > Musicals & Performing Arts > Musicals > Drama
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars
no surprises,
This review is from: Nashville (Widescreen) (DVD)
This hard to find film arrived before the estimated ship date and looked exactly as the seller described it. The disc is pristine and plays perfectly.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Altman's great mosaic of the USA,
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This review is from: Nashville (Widescreen) (DVD)
Brilliant, funny, sad and epic look at 1970s U.S., following 24characters over a few key days in Nashville. An amazing combination of political satire, hysterical send up of the country music business and touching and moving character studies. If one wants to quibble there are minor flaws; overstated performances at moments, ironies that are a bit too easy, but the overall sweep, power, the great performances and the sheer number of moments that make you want to laugh and cry simultaneously, are overwhelming. Certainly one of the great films of the 70s, and arguably among the greatest North American films ever made. How can it be that films like this and 'Annie Hall', parts of the great film legacy of the last 50 years, are currently out of print?!?
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Flawed Masterpiece - Defined,
By FrankA (New York City, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nashville (Widescreen) (DVD)
A filmmaker is asking for a pretty sizeable leap of faith from his/her audience when over one hour of their 2'40" movie consists of sung performances (FULL songs, too - that would never happen today), and just about nobody in the cast (save Keith Carradine, and Ronee Blakely - and even she only about 90% of the time) can actually sing. When Lily Tomlin opened her mouth with the gospel choir at the beginning, I nearly ditched the film, thinking "had to be there" about all those praising critics...Luckily, I stayed with it, and Nashville, as a pure movie, is a masterful work. The dense layers of dialogue, the wide-screen panoramas, the set pieces (the car pileup "happening" being especially effective and awesome), the tossed-off one-liner/payoff ironies which are more a documenting of what everyone in the audience is already thinking than a redundancy - all of it, top-shelf and brilliant. Also found it intriguing that Ronee Blakely, when singing, is the only character in the entire film I can recall that gets a true close-up - I guess Altman was trying to make her semi-deified, cult of personality status stand out even more. Altman hits a bull's-eye everywhere else - how could he miss with regard to the actual singing? (The songs, themselves are pretty good for what they are.) I guess if you're going to have the actors write their own lyrics (which he did) then you're kind of commited to go all the way with it. But it doesn't make most of those performances any easier to hear...
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