Codeliusthe2nd

Nashville

Nashvilleis THE most unapologetically American film that I have ever witnessed. It takes the jumbled culture of the country and throws it together into an unfortgettable masterpiece. Nashvilleis a staple in American cinema, and will forever be my 4th of July film. I’m simply stunned.

Codeliusthe2nd

Nashville

Happy 4th y’all!

BelugaJames

Nashville

Feels just as relevant nearly 50 years on.

nathansnook

Nashville

𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 1. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵. 2. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵. Holy shit, has Cusk seen this? Is this what Altman films are like? It’s like a Tati film but in dialogue form. Recently, Heti is writing towards a novel without characters. There doesn’t need to be character. It’s all about what the story says. We aren’t listening anymore, or rather we’re listening to only to hear how we respond to things. We are only listening to how we respond to things. "𝘈 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺: 1. 𝘛𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺 2. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦.” This is my introduction to Altman's work which now holds a great interest to me when we think of life as a theater itself, the hustle and bustle of the great circus parade. How we march around, say our thoughts, act on them, kiss, love, hate, spew out nonsense, spew out the philosophical. In all its beauty, it's America at its core. In essence, Altman created the very theater of America, in all its warfare and fanfare. * 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥: understanding. Sense. Making it. Arranging. Rearranging. — There’s a scene in which Nashville national treasure Barbara Jean, during her performance, interrupts her setlist to talk about her life. It’s this beautiful breakage of narrative to allow character to be character, and it’s then you realize it isn’t reality you are watching or really the imitation of it, but how fiction emerges from real life, to crave a need, an attention, to be noticed to you. It wants you as story. And how does that Joan Didion quote go again about wanting to tell ourselves stories in order to survive? Fiction survives with us. It loves as much as we do. Tells all as much as we do. What I think I’m trying to get at is that the heart wants what it wants and fiction has a beating, bleeding heart too. Even in politics, the show must go on.

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