7 New Criterion Blu-rays You Should Absolutely Pick Up During This Month’s 50% Off Sale
thewrap.com“Miller’s Crossing” is the duo’s noirish gangster movie, as crisp and entertaining as any of their more openly lionized achievements.
Gabriel Byrne stars as a mobster working for a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney), whose loyalty begins to waver, with increasingly deadly and suitably Coens-esque consequences.
Remarkably assured for what was only the brothers’ third film, it was shot by future big time filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld and features outstanding performances from Coens regulars John Turturro, Steve Buscemi and newcomer Marcia Gay Harden (this was her first movie!) Supplemental features include a new transfer supervised by Sonnenfeld (it’s actually a slightly shorter cut of the movie, done by the Coens), new interviews conducted by novelist Megan Abbott and a host of archival materials.Finally. “Walker” has been a part of the Criterion Collection for a while now (its spine number is a practically archaic #423).
But it has finally been remastered and released on Blu-ray and that is very much worth celebrating. An insane, one-of-a-kind biography from provocateur Alex Cox (his “Repo Man” and “Sid & Nancy” also have Criterion editions) and starring Ed Harris in what might be his greatest role, that of William Walker, one of those 19th century jack-of-all trades (he was physician, journalist and mercenary, among other things).
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