I love talking about movies but Ive never been able to organize movie-night get-togethers So this is the next best thing On Tuesdays Im going to spotlight a DVD and suggest some virtual-discussion startersAs I was watching Bobby last week a movie that by the way I like rather better than most reviewers its reach outstrips its grasp but isnt ambition a good thing I couldnt keep my mind off Robert Altmans Nashville 1975 a model for successful multistrand narratives Its one of my favorite films ever I saw it when it opened at a now-vanished theater called the Baronet I showed it regularly during the five years I taught film historytheorycriticism and after all those viewings it retains the power to chill me with its distillation of the heart-wrenching gulf between ideals and actions between dreams and the grubby day-to-day reality of making it from sunrise to sunset without drowning in the troubles of the world I know what youre thinking You dont really l
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