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For this Friday Movie Night, first up, by request, is Nashville (1975), which is widely considered one of the best films of the 1970s and of the New Hollywood movement generally. If any movie can be described as a slice-of-epic, this would be it: it follows a couple of dozen characters in a series of vignettes revolving around Nashville’s country music scene, ntersecting with American class, race, gender, and political relations along the way. Director is Robert Altman, whose film 3 Women (1977) we watched last week; we have also watched his The Long Goodbye (1973), Popeye (1980), and The Player (1992). He has an excellent track record, so let’s check out what many consider his magnum opus. This was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 1975.

After that is Eternity (2017), the first Peruvian movie we have shown here; another country to cross off the list. It centers on an elderly indigenous couple living alone in an isolated region of the Andes, who must endure all the hardships and dangers of traditional mountain life as they wait for their son to return. Where has he gone? Is he coming back? Who knows? They have only their trusty llama to help out at home. This is the first feature-film entirely in the Aymara language. High praise for this one across the board, so we’ll give it a whirl. It was the only notable work of director Oscar Catacora before his death in 2021 at age 34.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Nashville: https://letterboxd.com/film/nashville/
• Eternity: https://letterboxd.com/film/eternity-2017/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Nashville: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Eternity: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8260948/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Nashville:

• Sex. Pretty mild, PG-13 stuff, though.
• Nudity.
• A woman is forced to do a striptease.
• Cheating.
• Fistfighting.
• Profanity.
• N-word.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Eternity:

• Slaughter of animals, offscreen.
• Loneliness.
• Struggling elderly people.

Links to movies:

• Nashville: https://tankie.tube/w/rihsNDED4z7x9V5gjphd3D
• Eternity: https://tankie.tube/w/7ykPeWxW5iWFTz17USZU2w