3 Women (Criterion Collection) (1977) On Blu-ray

3 Women (Criterion Collection) (1977) On Blu-ray

Abbott & Costello - The Complete Universal Pictures Collection On DVD

Abbott & Costello - The Complete Universal Pictures Collection On DVD

$39.95
SKU
WMEN5807

Actor:           Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson                                                                                                                      
Director:      Robert Altman
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1977
Studio:          Criterion
Length:         124
Released:    April 20, 2004
Rating:          Unrated (Video)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Color
Language:    English
Subtitles  :    English


DESCRIPTION:

"The cinema," Orson Welles famously noted, "is a ribbon of dream." 3 Women is one of few feature films on record as having taken form in a dream. The dreamer was Robert Altman, and although all his best work has an oneiric quality--the floaty zooms, the eerie pastels bleeding into one another, the slip and slide of characters' trajectories overlapping in the fluid accumulation of what passes for narrative--this last masterpiece in his amazing seven-year run of 1970s masterpieces is only more so. Shelly Duvall, that most unorthodox of Altman creatures, locks in the tone with her eerie portrayal of Millie Lammoreaux, a Texan hoyden whose nonstop prattle turns life into a stream-of-consciousness reverie even as most of the people in her vicinity studiously ignore her. Her primacy is worshiped, then emulated by a strange, certifiably dysfunctional childwoman named Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) who comes to work in the same old-age home as Millie, moves in with her, and progressively usurps her lifestyle and finally her identity. The third woman, Willie (the late Janice Rule), is a pregnant artist who paints reptilian humanoid figures on the floors of swimming pools. Willie's husband (Robert Fortier), a strutting gun nut who once had a bit part on TV's Wyatt Earp ("He knows Hugh O'Brian"), is just about the only male character of consequence in the film. This macho man gets his--but what "his" may be is only one of the movie's beguiling mysteries. It's only appropriate that the cameraman, Chuck Rosher, should be the son of the man who photographed F.W. Murnau's Sunrise.



 

Special Features:

  • New high-defination transfer with restored sound and image
  • Audio commentary by director Robert Altman
  • Stills gallery of rare production and publicity photos
  • Original trailers and TV spots

 

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