Favorite Actor in "Nashville"

I'd go Gibson, Allen Garfield ("I got no time, Delbert--I got no time!"), and then maybe Barbara Baxley. That should read Tommy Brown, not Tommy Brow, who's the older brother of Middle and High Brow. There are a couple of threads on the film, but no polls that I could find.

Nashville: The Movie
Altmans Nashville

Hate to be all Academy Awards here, but I'm pretty much in Tomlin's corner here. All other women excepting maybe Duvall and Raines in strong runner-up position.

Yeah, Duvall's performance is as vacuous as her character--not sure if that doubles back on itself and = good performance. She's definitely the most annoying thing in the film. I'm a little too starry-eyed about Christina Raines' classically-'70s-beauty to evaluate her performance...

Kinda feel the same way about Karen Black, whose performance might also not be up to the level of Welles, Harris, Blakley, et al.

I still don't get this movie. Still think the music's crummy. Still think Altman topped it many, many times. Etc. But yeah Henry Gibson for me. He scares me. Was that intended effect?

THE intended effect

one of my all-time favorites, voting lily. i mean,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZ8PRWChb8

KJB: We're miles away on the film, so no point in hashing over that. I think Haven's supposed to be pseudo-celebrity self-regard run amok, or something like that...In voting for Gibson, I'm ducking the film's two "serious" performances, Tomlin and Blakley (three if you count Keenan Wynn). It's hard to compare what Gibson and Tomlin are doing. But she's amazing, especially in the clip posted above. One other thought: Hal Philip Walker's phantom speechifying deserves a credit unto itself. "When you pay more for an automobile than it cost Columbus
to make his first voyage to America, that's politics" is one of the funniest lines in the film.

Some of the songs in this one are horrible, no doubt. I think that was the intended effect.

One write-in for Elliot Gould as Elliot Gould.

Gibson followed by Tomlin.

And of course Carradine as the one I'd like to ball.

I have some good news for you: he's easy.

lily tomlin. the dinner scene (where she talks w/ her kids abt swimming, and takes a phone call from carradine) comprise probably two of my favorite minutes in the whole of cinema.

Tomlin, and KJB is otm about Nashville's place in the Altman canon.

The movie needed a little more Haven Hamilton.

The dinner scene mentioned above: by way of contrast with Tomlin's infinite love and patience, the unmistakable look of disgust and embarrassment with his own child that flashes across Beatty's face is pretty great too.

The dinner scene and the "I'm Easy" clip above both refute a complaint I'll never understand: the idea that Nashville is a film of unrelenting glibness and/or condescension. Tomlin undoubtedly deserves a lot of the credit for working against that notion, but there is lots else in the movie--Baxley's Kennedy monologue, Wynn learning of his wife's death, Garfield and Blakely's argument in the hospital, David Hayward's call to him mom--that does too.

This is at the apex of Altman's canon. He did two, maybe three movies about as good, but that's it.

ronee blakley

Yeah, Blakely for me too. I always cringe at her onstage meltdown. (Raines' pathetic little striptease is pretty cringeworthy too, of course.)

tempted to say henry gibson, for his delivery of the word "frog" alone.

but yeah lily tomlin probably wins this one.

not a huge fan of this movie, though it has some incredible stuff in it.

MVB: The striptease is by Gwen Welles. I wish it were Raines...

Ooh, right, thanks.

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