American Decades
"Nashville"
Interview
By: Robert Altman
Date: 1976
Source: Altman, Robert. "Nashville." Interview by Connie Byrne and William O. Lopez. Film Quarterly 29, no. 2, Winter 1975–76, 14–17.
About the Artist: Robert Altman (1925–) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Following a brief career in the U.S. Air Force, he was employed by the Calvin Company to create employee training films as well as industrial and sports documentaries. In the late 1950s Altman directed episodes of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and in the 1960s he directed episodes of The Millionaire, Bonanza, and Kraft Suspense Theater. Some of his notable feature films are Countdown (1968), A Perfect Couple (1979), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), and Gosford Park (2001).
Introduction
Robert Altman may be one of the best and most...
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1970's The Arts Primary Sources
- The Bluest Eye
- "The Ladies Who Lunch"
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Dirty Harry
- Nixon and McGovern: Statements on the Arts
- Valley Curtain
- The Godfather
- The Stages of Joseph Papp
- Young Frankenstein
- Carrie
- "Born to Run"
- "Nashville"
- Isaac Bashevis Singer—Nobel Lecture
- The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Twenty Years Later
- "A Woman Speaks"
- Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
- Einstein on the Beach
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
