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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Directed by: Robert Altman
Featuring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall
This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman 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 and Julie Christie 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, and soundtrack that innovatively interweaves overlapping dialogue and haunting Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
2.40:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interview, Featurette, Q&A, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- 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 Show featuring Robert Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
- Trailer
- An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
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Release Credits
Producer: Karen Stetler
Artwork: Jon Contino
Restoration Information
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Restoration by:
The Criterion Collection
Warner Bros.
Year: 2016
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Original camera negative
Release Notes on Restoration
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.40:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K 16-bit resolution on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner from the 35mm original camera negative. The color was matched to a reference print made by the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and timed by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film’s, while Digital Vision’s Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from the 35mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from the 35mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.