McCabe & Mrs. Miller – 4K Restoration

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 for 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.

Academy Awards 1972 – 1 nomination

Robert Altman was one of the defining figures of American cinema, whose distinctive ensemble storytelling and freewheeling approach to Hollywood genres made him one of the most important filmmakers of 1970s American cinema. His films often explored communities and the individual's place within them through intersecting storylines, overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and a radical loosening of conventional genre rules. McCabe & Mrs. Miller stands as one of Altman's defining Westerns, replacing the genre's romantic mythology with the raw, muddy and unforgiving reality of a frontier settlement in the making.

M*A*S*H (1970)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Nashville (1975)
3 Women (1977)

Original title: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Screenwriter: Robert Altman, Brian McKay
Based on the novel by: Edmund Naughton
Producers: Mitchell Brower, Robert Eggenweiler, David Foster
Editor: Lou Lombardo
Music: Leonard Cohen
Production Designer: Leon Ericksen
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
Run Time: 120 mins