Archive for tag: Nashville

“Writin’ it down kinda makes me feel better”: Robert Altman’s “Nashville”

2 October, 2008 (00:03) | by Richard T. Jameson, Essays, Film Reviews, Robert Altman | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News no. 43, September 1975] Nashville is a film with a mirror in it. The mirror is Robert DoQui’s face; specifically, his face at that moment when Jeff Goldblum takes the cap off the saltshaker at the airport lunch counter, pours the salt into his left hand, lifts the left hand [...]

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Altman and Coppola in the Seventies: Power and the People

29 September, 2008 (00:18) | by Robert C. Cumbow, Directors, Essays, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman | By: Robert C. Cumbow

[Editor's Note: The House Next Door is currently reissuing a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. Author Bob Cumbow is a member of the Parallax View collective and his essays are being published simultaneously on Parallax View. The essay below was first published on 11/26/2005, [...]

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