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569. Frame Rate: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
🕑 Added 2023-02-17 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
Michael and Abe discuss the 1971 anti-western McCabe & Mrs. Miller directed by Robert Altman. They talk the look, vibe, and editing of one the best Altman films ever!
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Andrew Marinus
Altman's birthday is in a few days, Feb 20, though unfortunately he passed in 2006 after completing A Prairie Home Companion (with Paul Thomas Anderson as backup director because the studio was worried about his health; during his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award he assured everyone he was right as rain and would be making movies for years to come, like a freight train of geriatric energy). I haven't watched everything he made yet, but I've watched most of it, and there is unique magic throughout, even to be found in his failures, that I love. I love his frank lucidity and modesty in his interviews, and I love his poking fun at social conventions to be found in almost everything I've seen of his. For those curious, I'd most heartily recommend Kansas City, Short Cuts, California Split, Nashville, Secret Honor, Tanner '88, The Player, 3 Women, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Images, Brewster McCloud, Prairie Home Companion, and Popeye. And his work is always worth HD quality picture and sound. Thanks for the episode, great stuff!
Ellen Swaim
That’s such an old movie, and I absolutely love it. Thanks, Andrew, for picking it. Great music too. Haunting.
