Nashville (1975)
Released 25 JUNE
ANTICIPATION.
Robert Altman’s masterpiece gets the 4K restoration treatment. 5
ENJOYMENT.
A stunning, epic layering of music and delusion. 5
IN RETROSPECT.
Still a hauntingly relevant satire about America’s obsession with access. 5
“We must opens with this bitterly ironic chorus sung by country music legend Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), whose melodic championing of American democratic endurance purposefully ignores the cultural, political and racial tensions that at this point had been ripping the country apart for nearly two decades. This is, after all, a film almost entirely concerned with façades, and the ways in which art can be used as a smokescreen to hide humanity’s more complicated issues.
