It Don’t Worry Me

It Don’t Worry Me

Pauline Kael could be a sour critic, but I’d have loved to sit next to her the first time she watched Robert Altman’s Nashville when it opened in 1975. “I’ve never before seen a movie I loved in quite this way,” she swooned in her New Yorker column: “I sat there smiling at the screen, in complete happiness. It’s a pure emotional high.” Pass the popcorn, Pauline! There’s no accounting for personal taste, of course, but modern audiences may conclu…