It Don"t Worry Us: A Minute By Minute Look at Robert Altman"s Nashville

Haven Hamilton finally takes the mic, recording his bicentennial anthem "200 Years," and Jason Sacks and Dan Story ask whether it's the most pandering song in Robert Altman's Nashville. They read Joan Tewkesbury's screenplay description of Haven, size up Henry Gibson's controlling star and meet Bud and Lady Pearl, the family in his orbit. Plus Altman's assistant directors Tommy Thompson and Alan Rudolph, the background extras with stories of their own, Geraldine

Twelve musicians. Four backup singers. One man in white rhinestones watching every one of them like a hawk. In episode 3 of It Don't Worry Us, Jason Sacks and Dan Story step into Haven Hamilton's dark, cramped recording studio. That's minutes 2:30 to 4:00 of Robert Altman's Nashville, where one elegant tracking shot tells you everything about the king of country music. Is "200 Years" a heartfelt bicentennial anthem or Altman's sharpest joke? How did a Laugh-In comedian

In this second episode of It Don't Worry Us, Jason Sacks and Dan Story dig into the opening scene of Robert Altman's Nashville, where Hal Phillip Walker's campaign van pulls out and winds through the city. They unpack the Replacement Party's populist, folksy rhetoric against the backdrop of Watergate-era distrust and 1970s inflation, comparing Walker to Ross Perot and modern outsider candidates. The hosts also trace the van's route through Nashville's now-vanished lower

What happens when two movie obsessives decide that watching Nashville once—or even a dozen times—isn't enough?Jason Sacks and Dan Story begin their minute-by-minute journey through Robert Altman's sprawling 1975 masterpiece. Along the way, they dig into the battered Paramount logo, Altman's war with the studios, the bizarre opening credits, K-Tel records, 24 unforgettable characters, and the visual madness that launches the movie.Nashville contains multitudes—and this is just a discussion of the