#mccabe & mrs miller

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Oh right yes, we're back with my top ten movies of 2024

1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971) Recommended for: easy but, Leonard Cohen fans

2 Sherlock, Jr. & Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton, 1924 & 1928) Recommended for: Tarsem's The Fall fans

3 Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932) Recommended for: noir fans

4 Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) Recommended for: people with a poetry tag

5 My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946) Recommended for: people who have been told they have an old soul

6 3 Women (Altman, 1977) Recommended for: the witchy wlw Lana Del Rey fans

7 Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977) Recommended for: Mad Max fans

8 The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) Recommended for: sad girl Christmas!

9 Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971) Recommended for: Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies fans

10 A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985) Recommended for: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal fans

As before, links go to my original Letterboxd “review” (comment), and if you click the poster or title there you’ll be taken to the short synopsis, cast & crew, wide header image for some vibes, etc.

And then the next ten too why not, it was a Good Year in Watching:

12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook, 2005) The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) A New Leaf (May, 1971) Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl, 1945) Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ōshima, 1983) The Lion In Winter (Harvey, 1968) Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodóvar, 1988) Fail Safe (Lumet, 1964)

I loved all these as well

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller

dir. Robert Altman

🍚1971

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Shelley Duvall / digital painting by Miki Foldi

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | United States

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my collection of homemade warren beatty blinkies... feel free to steal them

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman, 1971

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Julie Christie

in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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OK OK. im gonna watch a robert altman movie tonight

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Top 5 westerns that aren't spaghetti westerns

OHHHH THIS IS SUPER DIFFICULT... like picking a favorite child. ok here's a rough list

The Good, the Bad, the Weird |  좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 (2008)

Unforgiven (1992)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Tears of the Black Tiger | ฟ้าทะลายโจร (2000)

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1971  McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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What film do you recommend for when it’s deep into winter, the third week of a January that is going on forever?

LOVE to receive this question, first of all, and

McCabe & Mrs. Miller!!!

Directed by Robert Altman in 1971, "this unorthodox dream western" (Criterion) is set in a teeny tiny ramshackle town carved along a forested river in the 1902 Pacific Northwest, and is about overly confident doofus with a hidden sweetness Warren Beatty being strong-armed into building a proper, warm, fancy frontier brothel by also overly confident, clever, particular, and secretive madam Julie Christie. It's set in autumn to winter as ice and snow begins slowly growing over the town, and the score is all soft & haunting Leonard Cohen songs. In this and the beautiful, hazy cinematography, it's an Old West story with all that is brutal and grimy, but also is such a lullaby.

Watch with: whiskey and eggs, together or separately; wool blanket

Streaming on: Criterion Channel (14-day free trial if you're new), or rentable on all the usual places

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he doesn’t even know basic math

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"why is this movie sloppily edited"

>it's a new hollywood revisionist western

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"Traveling lady, stay awhile Until the night is over I'm just a station on your way I know I'm not your lover"

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)

Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy. Screenplay: Robert Altman, Brian McKay, based on a novel by Edmund Naughton. Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Production design: Leon Erickson. Film editing: Lou Lombardo.  McCabe & Mrs. Miller may be Robert Altman's best film, as well as the greatest of all "stoner Westerns." It's very much of the era in which it was made, with its fatalistic view of its loner protagonist, doomed by his naive willingness to go up against the big corporate mining interests who want to buy him out. Hippies against the Establishment, if you will. It's also very much at the heart of the mythos of the American Western, which always centered on the loner against overwhelming odds. McCabe & Mrs. Miller came along at a time when the Western was in eclipse, with most of its great exponents, like John Ford and Howard Hawks, in retirement, and some of its defining actors, like John Wayne, having gone over to the side of the Establishment. So when iconoclasts like Altman and Warren Beatty, coming off of their respective breakthrough hits M*A*S*H (1970) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), took an interest in filming Edmund Naughton's novel, it was clear that we were going to get something revisionist, a Western with a grubby setting and an antiheroic protagonist. The remarkable thing is that McCabe & Mrs. Miller, perhaps more than either M*A*S*H or Bonnie and Clyde, has transcended its revisionism and formed its own tradition. For once, Altman's mannerisms -- overlapping dialogue, restless camerawork, reliance on a stock company of actors like Michael Murphy, John Schuck, and Shelley Duvall, and a generally loosey-goosey mise-en-scène -- don't overwhelm the story. Some of this is probably owing to Beatty's own firmly entrenched ego, which was often at odds with Altman's. His performance gives the film a center and grounding that many of Altman's other films lack, especially since he works so well in tandem with Julie Christie's performance as Mrs. Miller, the only thing about the film that the Academy deigned worthy of an Oscar nomination. How the Academy could have overlooked the contribution of cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond remains a mystery, except that at this point the cinematographers branch was dominated by old-school directors of photography who had been brought up in the studio system, which was to flood the set with light -- one reason why Gordon Willis's magisterial chiaroscuro in The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) failed to get a nomination the following year.