Nashville (1975)  /  Color-Sonics CS-2010: "The Party"

Directed by Robert Altman

Filmmaker Robert Altman’s exhilarating masterpiece cuts a cross-section through the musical community of mid-1970s Nashville, illuminating the foibles of country music’s jet set and the blind ambition of hopeless nobodies struggling to break in. Schisms form when a visiting team of political handlers cynically woos singers to support their candidate at a political rally. Rousing music and myriad, intertwined plot lines render Nashville a masterful assessment of the human comedy.

ABC Entertainment/Paramount Pictures. Producer: Robert Altman. Screenwriter: Joan Tewkesbury. Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann. Editor: Sidney Levin, Dennis M. Hill. Cast: Ronee Blakley, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Barbara Harris.

35mm, color, 157 min.