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	Categories	Auberjonois, Rene   Beatty, Warren   Carradine, Keith   Christie, Julie   Devane, William   Duvall, Shelley   Remsen, Bert   Altman, Robert   All Titles   Drama   Westerns   ( M )   Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Trade-In   DVD   Widescreen   R   US & CA DVDs: Region 1   1970 - 1979   English
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Together with winnings from a small-time card hustle, McCabe purchases three girls and sets up a makeshift whorehouse and casino. A madame talks him into backing a
Iconoclastic director Robert Altman (Nashville, M.A.S.H., The Player) deconstructs and demythologizes Hollywood's typically romantic vision of the Old West in this haunting, breathtaking masterpiece. A stranger, McCabe (Warren Beatty's excellent performance), the film's nonheroic protagonist, rides into a dead northwest mountain town (to the mournful sounds of Leonard Cohen), possessing ambitious entrepreneurial dreams of extension. As the town grows, Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie's finest role, as well), a tough madam, arrives and convinces McCabe to join her in a partnership. Neither are typical Western archetypes: McCabe's an insecure braggart, bumbling lover, and horrible businessman, while Mrs. Miller, hardly a whore together with a heart of gold, favors her opium pipe to her associate's romantic advances. Altman, meanwhile, buries these central characters inside the town's advanced, richly detailed tapestry of characters, preferring to eavesdrop on their overlapping dialogs and learn the bleak, harsh conditions of their way of lifes. At its core, the film addresses the sacrifices of individualism necessary in order to build a community, an American concept this the independent Altman views together with skeptical irony. The inevitable final shoot-out underscores the theme. For the reason that McCabe refuses to sell the town he built to a corporation, hired bounty hunters are sent. Instead of a showdown at high noon, the finale--one of Altman's much stunning set pieces--takes situate in the snow, guerilla warfare style. As McCabe runs and hides for his life, the town he created preoccupies itself together with saving a burning church instead of their creator, while Mrs. Miller, stoned and grinning, detaches herself from either concern. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond captures the town's brutal textures in luminous Cinemascope, which, sadly, is transformed into ugly murk on the nonletterboxed video version. Widescreen laser discs are available, however. --Dave McCoy
Iconoclastic director Robert Altman (Nashville, M.A.S.H.), deconstructs and demythologizes Hollywood's typically romantic vision of the Old West in this haunting, breathtaking masterpiece. A stranger, McCabe (Warren Beatty's excellent performance), the film's nonheroic protagonist, rides into a dead northwest mountain town (to the mournful sounds of Leonard Cohen), possessing ambitious entrepreneurial dreams of extension. As the town grows, Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie's finest role, as well), a tough madam, arrives and convinces McCabe to join her in a partnership. Neither are typical Western archetypes: McCabe's an insecure braggart, bumbling lover, and horrible businessman, while Mrs. Miller, hardly a whore together with a heart of gold, favors her opium pipe to her associate's romantic advances. Altman, meanwhile, buries these central characters inside the town's advanced, richly detailed tapestry of characters, preferring to eavesdrop on their overlapping dialogs and learn the bleak, harsh conditions of their way of lifes. At its core, the film addresses the sacrifices of individualism necessary in order to build a community, an American concept this the independent Altman views together with skeptical irony. The inevitable final shoot-out underscores the theme. For the reason that McCabe refuses to sell the town he built to a corporation, hired bounty hunters are sent. Instead of a showdown at high noon, the finale--one of Altman's much stunning set pieces--takes situate in the snow, guerilla warfare style. As McCabe runs and hides for his life, the town he created preoccupies itself together with saving a burning church instead of their creator, while Mrs. Miller, stoned and grinning, detaches herself from either concern. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond captures the town's brutal textures in luminous Cinemascope. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews
Gorgeous, unique 'Western' that turns a genre upside down   2010-08-11
By K. Gordon
A beautiful tone poem of a film. The story is a bit thin, but the cinematography, the Leonard Cohen songs, the style of the acting creates a western unlike any other, at once surreal and dreamlike, and yet somehow also hyper-real, as though we were eavesdropping through history. The first half has an intentionally meandering feel, that tightens ever more to a terrifically tense climax. This is a film much more about tone, mood, and feeling than story or even character. Sadly the DVD transfer of this amazing looking film is mediocre at best. If ever a film begged for the Criterion treatment or Blu-ray, or both, this is it.
An Original Approach To The Western Genre...   2010-06-28
By Koray Erdivanli (Istanbul, TURKEY)
I got very interested in this movie when I read about AFI's 10 Top 10 list that was presented in 2008. According to the list, McCabe & Mrs.Miller is the eighth best movie in the Western genre. In fact, as it is presented to be one of the best examples of its own genre, I was expecting to see a better movie. Although Robert Altman tells the story in an original way, the story itself is not special in terms of content. The story develops only with long dialogues until the final shootout scenes, which makes the movie a little bit boring. Altman brings a naturalistic approach to the western movies but this originality does not raise the watchablity of the film. On the other hand, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie play successfully. In addition, Leonard Cohen's music sounds quite restful. I recommend McCabe & Mrs. Miller to all western lovers because it is a different interpretation within the western genre. You will not get dissappointed if you do not keep your expectations high.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller DVD   2010-03-23
By Manny M. Agah
A realistic-looking and different kind of Western with fine cast, cinematography, etc. In my opinion, the vocal piece in the score could have been eliminated. The scene in which Keith Carradine is shot is powerful and realistic and illustrates the futility of violence. The 2.35:1 picture is enhanced for widescreen TVs and of high quality.
SORRY, THIS EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES   2010-01-26
By Silence Dogood (States)
Before Altman fans eviscerate my review, let me start by saying I'm one of you. I think Altman was a true genius and one of our most consistently brilliant filmmakers. I admire and enjoy his films going as far back as "Countdown" and continuing through "Gosford Park." I especially enjoy his films from the seventies, and consider "Brewster McCloud" and "California Split" among my all-time favorite films. Heck, I even admire the "Bonanza" episodes he directed. But "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"? I don't get it. Believe me, I'd long looked forward to seeing this previously unavailable film, so numerous are the accolades that've been heaped on it. But when I finally got my hands on the film, what I found was a long, dreary-looking picture about a handful of boring characters. Maybe the film's rich subtleties failed to penetrate my thick noggin. Maybe it just hasn't aged well. Whatever the case, I didn't find this film entertaining, insightful, or even moderately interesting. Were it not the product of Robert Altman, I doubt I would have made it through to the end. I've heard and read the comments about Altman single-handedly redefining the Western, but that'd already been done by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, among others. Only the difference is, when those other filmmakers removed the gloss Hollywood had applied to the genre for forty-plus years, they came up with compelling stories and characters. I don't know any way to put this except to say the filmmaker of this particular movie seemed inept, not just in his storytelling skills, but from a technical standpoint as well. The picture is grainy, the color washed out. Okay, so he was trying to de-beautify the western, but did he have to make every scene so difficult to make out? Worse is the muddy sound. Apparently this too was one of Altman's choices, but given his fondness for overlapping dialogue--a good effect when done well--the decision to remove the clarity from the sound is a near disaster. Much of the dialogue is indecipherable. I've also heard it said that "McCabe" is a satire of capitalism, and if not a satire, then at least an indictment of it. Well, if that's the case, then capitalism has nothing to worry about, because the story of a lone businessman crushed under the heel of a corporation is hardly revolutionary. It wasn't when the movie came out and it sure isn't in 2010. Instead the message in this film comes off as trite, nothing more. The film is not without its virtues. There are some good scenes with Keith Carradine, and the ending is suspenseful and well done, if fairly predictable. But that's about it. And yet, Altman fans really, really like this film. Even Richard Schickel, who recently blasted Altman in his review of a new Altman biography, cites this as Altman's best work. In my opinion, not even close.
Altman Agonistes   2009-02-08
By Catlett Conway (South of Mason-Dixon)
If you like Altman, you may like this, but Christie is horribly miscast as the female lead and Beatty, as the male lead, might as well have "mailed in" his performance. With Altman, it's not so much about the actors as it is Altman. This was agonizing, although possibly not as agonizing as Buffalo Bill and the Indians. As usual, Altman takes two hours to express his cynical view of the world. So tiresome . . . .