McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American revisionist western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton.[3] Altman referred to it as an "anti-western film" because the film igno

Directed by Robert Altman. With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane. A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

It is not often given to a director to make a perfect film. Some spend their lives trying, but always fall short. Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great in one way or another, but one of them is perfect, and that one is "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971). This is one of the saddest films I have ever seen, filled with a yearning for love and home that will not ever come -- not for McCabe, not with Mrs. Miller, not in the town of Presbyterian Church, which cowers under a gray sky always heavy with rain or snow. The film is a poem--an elegy for the dead.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Trailer Directed by Robert Altman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/ Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie Music Leonard Cohen...

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In a small American frontier village, a stranger named McCabe builds a brothel with the help of experienced madame Mrs. Miller. The town soon prospers, and success brings the jealous -- and potentially deadly -- attentions of a wealthy mining company in this classic, idiosyncratic reworking of the Western genre.

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) was iconoclastic and offbeat director Robert Altman's acclaimed revisionist western (or "anti-western" according to some) about the American frontier. It was the first of his two myth-busting westerns (the second was Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or S