Welcome to LA - Nashville April 23, 2010

Larry Karaszewski Presents: Double Feature - Richard Baskin in Person!Welcome To L.A., 1976, MGM Repertory, 106 min. Dir. Alan Rudolph. Robert Altman produced this delightful ensemble film from his protege Alan Rudolph, who uses the title city as a backdrop for several stories exploring love and loneliness. Keith Carradine anchors the film as Carroll Barber, a womanizing songwriter who has affairs with a real estate agent (Sally Kellerman), his father's mistress (Lauren Hutton) and the wife (Geraldine Chaplin) of one of his father's chief executives (Harvey Keitel).Nashville, 1975, Paramount, 159 min. One of Robert Altman's greatest pictures is a sprawling, nearly-out-of-control mosaic of a movie, a loosely linked series of sagas following numerous colorful characters in Nashville on the occasion of a political convention and music festival. The cast includes Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine and many, many more. Discussion between films with Richard Baskin.