Sprawling and featuring many of Altman’s trademark – and for the time highly innovative – techniques such as his routine use of overlapping dialogue and improvisational shooting style, Nashville is an audacious and hugely ambitious ensemble piece with no real star unless you count the city itself. Okay, firstly, Nashville isn’t the easiest film ever made to review – he says, getting his excuses in very early – and resides at the completely opposite end of the cinematic spectrum to the high concept movies beloved by Hollywood producers of the present day, ones that can be summed up in a single and easily understandable logline. Here’s a review I wrote for Louder Than War for the Eureka Masters of Cinema release of the film in 2014. It is, though, a great film which should appear on many more lists of best music movies. Likewise, Robert Altman’s 1975 satirical drama Nashville is seeped in country and western balladry, the popularity of which as I’ll mention isn’t something I can readily fathom. It’s compulsively watchable but did I seek out any Pentagram music after seeing it? No. The 2011 documentary Last Days Here tells the story of Bobby Liebling, lead singer of the heavy metal rockers Pentagram, as he battles his demons. It’s tempting to answer with a film with a connection to music you love but some of my favourites feature genres that I have little or no interest in. The question of what is the greatest music related movie is asked online regularly.
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