Those who “got” the joke (which seemed to be mostly those outside the country music community) praised Nashville for its unconventional storytelling and an absence of slickness in the musical numbers throughout. It was a music-filled film with inter-connected characters and plot, featuring a political campaign rally at its explosive, chaotic climax. Directed by Robert Altman, the big-screen Nashville opened in New York City on June 11th, 1975, although the movie didn’t host its actual Music City premiere until two months later.įive years after exploring the bloody realism of the Korean War with M*A*S*H, which delighted audiences and critics with its decidedly dark humor, Altman trained his experimental style on what was supposed to be a satirical take on the Nashville recording industry. Four decades before becoming one of America’s “it” cities, Nashville was the subject of a sprawling, 24-character study that was simultaneously hailed by critics as a cinematic masterpiece and vilified by country artists offended by what they saw as a slam against their industry - or, even worse, a series of caricatures that perhaps cut a little too closely to real life.
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