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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Looking back at Robert Altman’s 1975 movie ‘Nashville’
Description: Director Robert Altman’s Nashville premiered in Nashville on August 8, 1975. The film was already doing well in New York and elsewhere, but even before then, before it even hit theaters, legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael dubbed it “the funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen.”
Nashville would go on to gross about $10 million in the U.S. and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. Keith Carradine’s ballad “I’m Easy” took home the Oscar for best original song.
Even so, many in Nashville at the time felt li...