Part of both the New Hollywood era and the second wave of Westerns, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller might have suffered from poor box office on its release, but luckily did not have to wait long to find its revival audience. Alongside films such as Heaven's Gate and Days of Heaven, it was a story that took a different look at the frontier, one that set aside the usual white hat/black hat gun-totting adventures in search of what life was like for the ordinary people who built and worked the towns and land (and driving out the indigenous population). Criterion's re-release of their earlier edition of this film now includes a 4K restoration, alongside the blu-ray. Based on the novel by Edmund Naughton, McCabe...
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- 2/16/2024
- Screen Anarchy
From the B-side of Robert Altman’s filmography is his 1998 attempt at neo-noir with The Gingerbread Man, based on an original screenplay by John Grisham, re-worked to such an extent the lawyerly scribe receives only a story credit (with pseudonym Al Hayes used for the script). Source material was often the fodder Altman would chew up and spit out into his own particular dismantling of whatever genre he was working within, such as his evident disdain for Edmund Naughton’s source novel upon which his 1971 classic McCabe & Mrs. Miller (review) was based (which Altman references as the most basic template from which to work from).…...
- 12/11/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In early 1971, Leonard Cohen was still a relatively unknown singer-songwriter. Despite releasing two critically acclaimed records – 1967's Songs of Leonard Cohen and 1969's Songs From a Room – the Canadian artist, who previously plied his trade as a novelist and poet, had yet to tour the U.S. He was then living on a farm in the small town of Big East Fork, Tennessee while preparing the release of that March's Songs of Love and Hate. "I had a house, a jeep, a carbine, a pair of cowboy boots, a girlfriend … a typewriter,...
- 11/14/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Robert Altman, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie join together for one of the great westerns, a poetic account of the founding of a town and the way big business preys on foolish little guys. Raw and cluttered, the show gives the genre a new look, with a dreamy mix of snowflakes, opium and the music of Leonard Cohen. McCabe & Mrs. Miller Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 827 1971 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 121 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 11, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Antony Holland, . Cinematography Vilmos Zsigmond Production Designer Leon Ericksen Film Editing and Second Unit Director Louis Lombardo Original Music Leonard Cohen Written by Robert Altman, Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton Produced by Mitchell Brower, David Foster Directed by Robert Altman
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Robert Altman films run hot and cold for this reviewer.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Robert Altman films run hot and cold for this reviewer.
- 10/22/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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