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here it is.
Not only did we have a thread on mCcabe n mrs Miller, Onya, but you are in it!!
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Go to google, lookup score monthly and whatever word you want.
Job done.
Anyway its official Tg says it wasnt a snow western.
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Anyway its official Tg says it wasnt a snow western.
Glad you were (sort of) paying attention!
well, you being our most knowledgable and highly-regarded western expert on the forum - although you try to be low key about your phenomenal knowledge - i wouldnt doubt or question your judgment. If you say it doesnt qualify, man, thats good enough for me and its set in stone.
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Aug 1, 2016 - 6:46 PM
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Richard-W
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I've always thought of McCABE & MRS. MILLER as one of the great, great films of the 1970s and one of the finest revisionist westerns. It's almost an historical film in showing how prostitution and gambling, the need for a roof over one's head and utter ruthlessness become the foundation for a society, and how refinement grows out of base needs. But the is most definitely a western. If Altman really wanted to make an anti-western, he would have resisted putting in the gunfight on the bridge, and he would have resisted the gunfight in the snow at the end. The western is inescapable in the American mind. McCABE & MRS. MILLER is very much a western, but the realistic kind instead of the mythological kind. McCabe's line "I've got poetry in me" says so much about his character, it's a good, even important line. I love how the film begins darkly and then gradually brightens. It's like looking at an old stereocard of the period. Love the ambiance, the coarseness of the characters, the terrible decisions they must make, the weather, the rawness of it, the fur coats. No film had ever been photographed quite like this, and no western had ever been preoccupied with these ideas. Actually, McCABE & MRS. MILLER has more in common with TRACK OF THE CAT (1954) and THE HANGING TREE (1959) than THE GREAT SILENCE (Spain, 1968). The film is a work of art.
So much of the film's visual aesthetic was accomplished in the lab, and is dependent on photochemical approaches, I hope Criterion doesn't screw it up.
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By the way T.G, thanks for the two books you sent me and for the thesis "McCabe, Miller, Dark Rooms, Smoke and Paint Drying - more boring than a western expert's lecture" - so far, i have to say, a riveting read. Will let you know when ive finished it. Cheers mate.
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You raised a lot of points i hadnt considered T.G.
I suspect any further papers - whatever subject you are inspired to tackle - wont happen, with work, the cat, and the fact mrs T.g threatened to divorce you if you disappeared into that office for "another two months analysing the arse off crap movies that dont deserve the words, youre history, husband!" Mind you, she wasnt happy even when you wrote that feature on Yorkshire's sporting heroes over that bank holiday weekend - but in fairness it was her birthday weekend and you had promised to take her for a meal and the theatre.
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