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Short Cuts
Why this pick
Altman’s most expansive web of intersecting lives: funny, wounded, casually musical, and alive to the ways private disappointments collide with public spectacle.
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MOVIE1975 2h 40m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Bob Roberts
Why this pick
A sharp, song-infused political satire that echoes Nashville’s uneasy marriage of campaign imagery, celebrity performance, media manipulation, and American idealism.
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The Last Supper
Why this pick
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The Player
Why this pick
For Nashville’s pleasure in watching an entire professional ecosystem talk, scheme, perform, and expose itself through Altman’s fluid, densely layered staging.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville in search of some sort of goal through their own (often overlapping) story arcs.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert DoQui
Wade Cooley
Shelley Duvall
Marthe aka "L. A. Joan"
Henry Gibson
Haven Hamilton
Scott Glenn
Pfc. Glenn Kelly
Barbara Harris
Albuquerque
David Hayward
Kenny Fraiser
Cristina Raines
Mary
Gwen Welles
Sueleen Gay