McCabe & Mrs. Miller (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Description

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman (Nashville) may be the most
radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that
transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty (Bonnie and
Clyde) and Julie Christie (Don t Look Now) as an enterprising gambler and a
bordello madam, both 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 of 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 (Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, Heaven s Gate), and soundtrack that innovatively interweaves overlapping
dialogue and haunting Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly
deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres. BLU-RAY SPECIAL
EDITION FEATURES – New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack – Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and
producer David Foster – New documentary on the making of the film, featuring
actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy; casting director
Graeme Clifford; and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury – New conversation
about the film and Altman s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and
Rick Jewell – Featurette from the film s production, shot on location in 1970
– Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art
Directors Guild Film Society – Archival footage from interviews with
cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film –
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 – PLUS: An essay by film critic Nathaniel Rich

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Westerns
• Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
• Contributor: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Robert Altman
• Language: English
• Runtime: 2 hours and 1 minute
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35644674
• Director ‏ : ‎ Robert Altman
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
• Release date ‏ : ‎ October 11, 2016
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English