Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of February 5th – Robert Altman’s ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Comes to Criterion

Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we don’t have a ton of new releases (next week is better), but we have a Robert Altman classic coming to the Criterion Collection. Yes, this week brings the induction of none other than McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Read on for more…

Joey’s Top Pick

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion)

From The Criterion Collection: “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.”

Also Available This Week

Candy Land

OSS 117: Five Film Collection

The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler

Waitress: The Musical

Criterion Corner

*A reminder that the top pick, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is the Criterion release this week*

Stay tuned for more next week…