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Joan Tewkesbury’s Nashville: Tragic, Comedic, Hauntingly Beautiful

Nashville (1975) is a big, ugly mess. It’s amazing to me that it’s even one movie, because it doesn’t just make one point, focus on one character, or follow a single plot—and oftentimes throughout the film, we don’t hear or see just one thing. Nashville is a web of stories. 

I saw Nashville for the first time at the Metrograph screening on August 10th; the first Altman film I’ve seen.… read more.

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