Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Who Wore It Best?

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I was looking at pictures of Warren Beatty yesterday, as ones does, when I stumbled upon that shot of him on the set of the great McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and I immediately thought of...

... Ben Mendelsohn's momentous fur coat in last year's terrific and gorgeous film Slow West. Thing is Ben's coat seemed momentous at the time, but looking at Warren's coat right here and now side by side in comparison, well...
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By the way Criterion clearly also had a similar thought recently, because the art-work for their upcoming blu-ray release of McCabe (which is out in August) is also All About The Fur...


1 comment:

Pierce said...

McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a tough movie to get into, but once you do, it's worth the wait. It's a brilliant work in the Altman collection, definitely in the top five, along with Nashville, Mash, Short Cuts and The Player.