Nashille (15)

Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronnee Blakley
USA, 1975, 2 hours 41 minutes

characters during a Nashville music festival. Re-released in a new print, Altman’s dazzling masterpiece breaks the rules of conventional narrative but still creates an astonishing mosaic with many emotional strands in which stars, wannabes, politicians and a silent loner cross paths, get laid and break down. In a deceptively loose, highly original way Altman deals with the enduring obsessions of American life (celebrity, sex and politics) and creates an immensely enjoyable film that truly deserves the much abused title, ‘classic’.

“* * * * *” Empire

James Clarke, writer of The Virgin Film Guide: Coppola, The Virgin Film Guide: Animated Films and The Pocket Essentials: Steven Spielberg, will introduce the screening

See this if you liked Gosford Park, Short Cut

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