Greatest Movie Of All-Time · Thomas Duncan
Nashville (1975) ft. Scott Cole
June 11, 2025·1 hr 58 min·10 clips
Guest Scott Cole argues Ronnie Blakely's performance as Barbara Jean, patterned after Loretta Lynn, is the film's best.
As heard by us
A loose, sharp case for Nashville as a movie built on collisions, not plot.
Tom Duncan and Dana Duncan talk through Robert Altman's Nashville with Scott Cole, and they keep circling the scenes that give the film its shape: the traffic jam, the cookout in the garden, Barbara Jean at Opryland, the strip tease, I'm Easy, and the Parthenon.
Why you'd press play
If you want a long, scene-by-scene conversation about Nashville, start here.
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