McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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Peter L McCabe lights a cigar, then crosses a bridge to lead the audience into both a surreal and realistic work, a visual masterpiece whose characters chill and enchant like falling snow. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Carlo L Should be archetype of "western" movies Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/10/23 Full Review DanTheMan 2 Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller is the kind of revisionist post-western only made possible due to the ongoing Vietnam War and newfound American pessimism which led to the disappearance of the much-loved and adored classic American western. Altman dubs it an "anti-western" due to it often doing precisely the opposite of what the genre would lead you to expect, as it moves from the sprawling American Frontier to societies' quieter edges involving tired and obsolete men rather than heroic gunslingers. There are no heroes in McCabe & Mrs Miller only feared and flawed characters, the uneven slow pace is really the only criticism I could lobby at the movie which often stretches its scenes out for as long as possible. However, it's the personified pipe dream of a film, a fleeting, almost translucent, vision of what frontier life might have been and with its haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorises and revitalises the most American of genres. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/23 Full Review Gordon H Perhaps the best cinematic movie ever made. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/28/23 Full Review David K I first saw this film around the time it was released. I was a youngster, just out of high school, tumbling towards a college life. It just didn't work for me. Years later, now in my mid-60's, I revisited it. What a difference 50 +/- years can make. There's simply nothing about this movie that conforms to the John Ford westerns I'd grown up with. In retrospect, that was what was so off-putting in my youth. It rains consistently. The streets and lives are full of mud. There is no hero. The buildings are a work-in-progress. No law. No doctors. The whores are not beautiful; they're deeply scarred, with only Julie Christie having anything on the ball. Yet, she lives a secret life full of opium highs. There is a reality to this film that would never have sold in the mythological West that arose in the very beginnings of film. A seismic shift, really. And, a film well worth your time. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/24/23 Full Review David L Lots of greed, stupidity, and selfishness on display in a bleak cold landscape. Julie Christie really spices up the look of an opium den customer, though. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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