Description
This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
- Making-of documentary, featuring members of the cast and crew
- Conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
- Featurette from the film’s 1970 production
- Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen
- Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
- Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
- Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
Cover by Jon Contino
Criterion Collection:
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