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McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
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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 best 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 expansion. 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...
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| McCabe and Mrs. Miller Movie Review by Farmer Waltz (8/3/2009) |
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As a big fan of the late Robert Altman, I still had some apprehensions about his 1971 film. The director already had a long list of television westerns under his belt, including an episode of "Bonanza." But how would he fit in with the rest of his contemporaries? At the time, McCabe was an addition to the new reworking of...
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