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Film · Paramount · 1975

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Nashville

46Watch it awake.

Talented people, a lonely country, and a rally that does not fix either.

The review

Lonely fits, and the music is too good to say it plainly. A few days in Nashville: singers, hustlers, a political campaign, people who want to be heard. The songs were written for the film, so they belong to these mouths. It ends at a rally in a park. Adult, crowded, more interested in a town than in one hero.

Talent is not company. I would tell the person next to you that. Everybody is working to be noticed, and the campaign wants the same attention the stage wants. Save it for a night when you can stand a country that sings well and lives thinly. The rally does not tuck anybody in. It only puts them in one park.

Journal

Keep Nashville in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 46

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 46. What you gain is household: The whole film is a girl who will not leave a mother who is ill, and a house trying to keep its shape.

The eight

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Industry
The songs were written for these singers. Being heard is the work.
3
Household
People want an audience more than they want a kitchen or a child.
3
Piety
Wanting to be heard is not the same as letting conscience speak.
4
Courage
Stepping up to sing, or to hustle a crowd, risks being ignored.
6
Republic
A campaign and a park rally put the lonely country in one public square.
4
Temperance
Fame and the hustle keep asking for the next room that will listen.
5
Truth
The performances are real. The lives under them stay unsaid and lonely.
5
Stewardship
You leave with the songs, and with a country still talented and alone.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.