McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Directed by Robert Altman
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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A snowy montage scene set to Leonard Cohen recalls Robert Altman's 1971 opus McCabe and Mrs. Miller.
Echoes of gritty ‘70s revisionist westerns – think Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand , or Robert Benton’s Bad Company , or Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller — reverberate throughout News of the World , writer-director Paul Greengrass’ richly detailed, strongly acted and exceptionally well-crafted post-Civil War western, an uncommonly compelling drama that arrives just in time to qualify as one of the best movies released during a year when we need all the good news we can get.
Evoking the cinematographic proclivities of 1970s filmmakers (the influential likes of Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude and Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller pervade the fuzzy, 35mm cinematography), Payne reverberates the eras’ ambiance via faraway zooms, sentimental Labi Siffre and Cat Stevens’ needle drops, rustic prep-school environs, and darkly-lit oaken hallways.
Just as plot summaries fail to capture the magic of McCabe & Mrs. Miller or Shampoo*, the magic is not in the mechanics of Licorice Pizza, but in the moments.