31 Days of Oscar: Nashville

Robert Altman's sprawling, multi-story "character epic" about the country music capital of the world isn't for everyone, such as anyone who likes, say, a plot.

But the Best Picture nominee is filled with mini-masterpieces of storytelling, such as Keith Carradine crooning "I'm Easy" (which he himself wrote; he won the Oscar for his multi-tasking) to a roomful of potential subjects of said song, including the Academy Award nominated Lily Tomlin (who will be profiled in tomorrow's Out in Film). And then there is the one-hit wonder performance of the film's other Supporting Actress nominee, Ronee Blakley, playing a troubled recording star that will be all too familiar to today's audience of tabloid readers.

Nashville will air Saturday at 2:15 AM EST on Turner Classic Movies.