"A handsome movie about men in hats" is cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld's description of Miller's Crossing, and the man's right. From the opening chords of a goose-pimply Irish score through some astounding operatic violence to a climax as enigmatic as it is touching, this is the most elegant, most forceful and - - arguably - - simply the best film the Coen brothers have yet produced.
DVD Extras:
Don't expect a commentary, a documentary appearance or indeed any input at all from the notoriously cagey Coens. What you do get are some talking-head interviews with Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro and Gabriel Byrne beside a lengthy - if frustrating - interview about the film with Barry Sonnenfeld. The good stuff (stories about Albert Finney in drag and Turturro basing his character on Sonnenfeld) is there for the taking. But you have to endure a ton of technical yak (wide-angle lens this, film stock that) to get to it.
