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McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

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Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 32  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 8.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
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A haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture about love and the pursuit of wealth in 19th-century America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious... [More]
A haunting, poetic anti-Western based on the 1959 novel by Edmund Naughton, Robert Altman's MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER is a deeply moving motion picture about love and the pursuit of wealth in 19th-century America. John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a determined businessman with a mysterious past, settles in the small Northwestern town of Presbyterian Church and opens up a saloon and brothel. Soon after, the brothel's madam, an Englishwoman named Constance Miller (Julie Christie), arrives and forms a partnership with McCabe in order to manage the brothel's business affairs. McCabe has trouble expressing his true feelings to Mrs. Miller, with whom he has fallen in love; she, in turn, relies on opium to distract her from her personal sorrows. After a powerful company arrives and offers to buy out McCabe's property, his stubborn refusal ends up jeopardizing his life, resulting in a showdown with three hired killers in the middle of a freak blizzard. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond's faded imagery-purposely manipulated by "flashing" the film stock before shooting--along with production designer Leon Ericksen's authentically created town, brings to life a past world that is tinged with an underlying sadness, a feeling that is heightened by Leonard Cohen's melancholy soundtrack. Beatty, as the lovesick McCabe, and Christie, who was nominated for an Oscar as the hard-nosed Mrs. Miller, deliver heartfelt and convincing performances. [Less]

Genre: Westerns

Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, John Schuck

Director: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Robert Altman, Brian McKay
Producer: David Foster, Mitchell Brower

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 4, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Mono - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Altman - Director, David Foster - Producer
  • Featurettes - 1. Behind the Scenes Documentary
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Galleries:

  • Film Highlights - 1. Cast

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11/01/07 03:15 AM
David Ansen
Newsweek
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A period story about a small northwest mountain village where stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie run the bordello, the production suffers from overlength; also a serious effort at moody photography which backfires into pretentiousness.

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09/04/07 03:51 PM
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Variety
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A bleak, beautifully mounted, elegiac film.

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09/04/07 03:49 PM
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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Still Robert Altman's best moment, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism.

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09/04/07 03:48 PM
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Altman's capacity for fashioning an oddball romance without defeating the tough political implications of the story make this one of the greatest of all westerns and a key work in American cinema.

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05/04/07 08:35 AM
Derek Malcolm
This is London
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If anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971.

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05/04/07 04:09 AM
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]
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A poetic, slow-burning tale of America’s pioneering past, it’s an off-beat western and one of Altman’s finest films.

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05/04/07 03:55 AM
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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Cast and director come together a treat in a fascinating attempt to revise the western that satisfies visually, emotionally and intellectually.

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05/04/07 03:33 AM
Channel 4 Film
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They say that great actors are never knowingly caught acting; Altman's best movies are similarly effortless - experiences to be lived in, rather than simply watched.

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05/04/07 02:38 AM
Colin Kennedy
Empire Magazine
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Diferente em ambientação, tom, textura e ritmo, é um western que só Altman poderia realizar, concentrando-se na humanidade de seus personagens e suas ambigüidades de maneira tocante, profunda e poética sem jamais nos deixar perder o interesse.

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11/28/06 06:07 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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A pioneering film, in both senses of the word, and one of the key works in the American cinema of the 1970s.

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06/24/06 03:22 AM
David Jenkins
Time Out
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06/15/05 08:45 PM
Emanuel Levy
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06/12/05 03:29 PM
Jake Euker
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Altman's brilliant deconstruction of the Western is a classic, one of his most assured works.

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05/03/05 10:05 AM
Jeremy C. Fox
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12/31/04 05:46 AM
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Altman before he went weird.

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12/21/04 07:50 AM
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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12/08/04 06:10 AM
Matt Bailey
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond present the film in grainy browns, as if the film were painted on a fence, and the endless white snow has never felt more textile, or more appropriate.

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11/15/04 10:21 PM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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02/08/04 09:16 AM
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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08/22/03 01:30 PM
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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