New Hollywood BS. Give pretty boy Warren some credit for taking the role, but the film drags and the dialog is unintelligible in places. What makes it worse is that Altman apparently wanted it that way but when audiences and critics panned it he blamed the sound guy - shameful. Wiki also states that Altman basically poisoned the film stock so the studio could never print it without the washed out color - another dumb ego trip. I had seen this decades ago but I couldn't get past 38 minutes this time. It just left me giving Zero Forks about the resolution, if any. OK, I scanned through the last half and it's clear that McCabe was going to meet his end, but why did Mrs. Miller end up in a filthy opium den? So, is the story just "Crap Happens Then You Die?" We already knew that.

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.

Should be archetype of "western" movies

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.

Perhaps the best cinematic movie ever made.

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.

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.

The breathtaking shots and believable atmosphere are arguably the film's strongest attributes. The filmmakers fumble the interesting and somewhat comical premise that could've potentially been a fountain for an incredible character study interwoven with some thought-provoking themes.

It wasn't bad, I just couldn't get into this period film. Maybe because I'm not an American.

This movie appears to be set in a Pioneer time period with a mountaineer backdrop. I wouldn't classify this a western despite its Saloons, Victorian shops and business ventures. All in all the Scenery and cinematography is beautiful especially as the Seasons change into Winter. The Log cabin and small town atmosphere may work well ;however when it comes to the main storyline and Character development it fell short. The relationship between the Protagonists was overly slow ,failing to deliver an adequate purpose. The Small town business owner MCCabe's attempts to run a Saloon,Bathouse and Bordello along side his love interest Miss Miller.The story in my opinion fell flat when Stock holder's threaten their lives the moment they refuse to sell out. As with most films who have tried to depict this startling reality of Money Sharks destroying small business owners. This story never gained momentum. The bleakness for a future success mirrored the drab and shallow personalities of the main characters. There may have been a few hints of heartfelt moments or even some attempts for sarcastic humor. Overall it was mediocre at best. Had Shelly Duvall been given a bigger role to play it might have had more potential . Be that as it may I was bored to pieces feeling deprived of the entertainment value I anticipate in a good movie. This one simply did not come through and its ending left me even more dissatisfied.

I did not like this movie at all.

Robert Altman's version of a western. And I absolutely loved it. Imagine the dialogue and excellent writing of an Altman film combined with the action and love story of an amazing western. I think his best film, but they are all so great. When reading the title and the synopsis, you may think it may be boring or uninteresting. And you couldn't be farther from the truth. Its a must see, a believable love story and enough action to keep me satisfied. The third act action sequence I have to say is one of the best western action scenes I have ever scene. And I have seen a lot of westerns. I recommend to watch it immediately in whatever, way you can. Rent, buy or stream, find a way to watch this marvelous film.

There's something so lovable about a Western town called Presbyterian Church whose namesake is notably near-unused and ultimately revealed to be essentially used as a barn. A great alternative Western led by solid performances of subversive characters - Christie as the stubborn, level-headed brothel manager with an eye for the practical, and Beatty as McCabe, the brash but largely untested card shark and businessman. McCabe in particular is an interesting character, a parody on the legend of the West archetype. He builds a reputation in part on his rumored identity as a famous gunslinger, which he never confirms but allows to fester, and adds to it with a bullheaded personality that combines anachronistic phrases and loud volume. However, his intermittently streetwise personality hides weakness, particularly a lack of real intelligence or experience, and when actually tested for the first time, he is revealed to be a sham figure, though not without some capability (hunting down bounty hunters in a less than honorable way, but one that played to his strengths, and only when necessary). Dangling deeper themes of corporate exploitation and the fallacy of hollow institutions (the lawyer explaining, with total sincerity and confidence, the means by which McCabe should publicize the efforts of the mining company to extort him while three hired killers are waiting to gun him down is an all time great comedic moment, particularly when you watch the color drain from Beatty's face as the secondary confidence turns to disbelief), McCabe & Mrs. Miller is one of the great 'dirty' Westerns, combining depth, dark comedy, quality acting, and a wonderful full scale Western town with nary a spek of desert sand or a tumbleweed in sight. One of the most unexpected rabbit holes that this movie made me go down was concerning the life story of Hugh Millais, who portrays particularly intimidating but little-explored bounty hunter Butler. Though his performance is restrained and commendable, it's nothing compared to the incredible lifestyle he led - the six-and-a-half foot heir to three generations of successful artists, and a stupendously well-traveled figure with an incredible string of stories based on interactions with celebrities and world events ranging from being offered a platter of seafood on the back of Salvador Dalí's naked wife, to getting shot while aboard his racing yacht while sailing through the early rumblings of revolution in Cuba. Where's my biography of this Altman-favorite character actor? (4/5)

I've never been that keen on Westerns but as part of the bfi's Robert Altman season, I'd give what Altman himself called his 'anti-Western' a look and it opens promisingly with a long tracking shot accompanied by the inspired choice of Leonard Cohen's The Stranger Song, setting itself up as something tantalizingly atmospheric and introspective. Now, I can certainly appreciate the amazingly authentic sets (on which Altman spent most of the budget replicating a turn-of-the-century mining town so he can shoot on location) and Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography perfectly invokes the look and feel of an old frontier photograph, but I'm less enamoured with the film's patchy and confusing narrative. Based on Edmund Naughton's novel, Altman and Brian McKay's adaptation is simple yet impenetrable at times. Warren Beatty and Julie Christie plays the titular gambler and madame/prostitute who hustle their way into becoming pioneering entrepreneurs of a thriving enterprise that encompasses a saloon and a whorehouse. When their success attracts the unwanted attention of the local big-shot mining company who wants to buy them out, their business and their lives are put in jeopardy. I find this mostly a sombre and downbeat affair, despite being unhelpfully classified as a comedy by some, that left this first-time audience cold and uninvolved. As a romance, not even Beatty and Christie's real-life chemistry can convince me otherwise and I never really buy into their relationship or their characters' reactions; while as a commentary on the exploitative nature of the economical system that the US is built on, its message feels opaque and hesitant. It's no doubt an accomplished and admirable effort with an intense final set piece that's beautifully and poignantly mounted, but even though I'm glad to have seen it, once is enough for me.

If you can survive Presbyterian Church for 90 minutes, a reward will be waiting for you.

In McCabe & Mrs Miller, Robert Altman effectively creates a world of rock and mud, cloud and shadows, snow and sleet, and ambition and resignation. Altman's auteur trademarks are present as he tells the story of John McCabe (Warren Beatty), a resourceful entrepreneur and gambler who arrives in a small Washington town in the early 20th century. A short time later, Mrs Miller (Julie Christie) rolls into the village and together they open a successful brothel. There's not much in the way of plot, but Vilmos Zsigmond's bleak cinematography and the soundtrack by Leonard Cohen help establish an atmosphere that will stay with the viewer longer after the film ends.

Warren Beatty is an entrepreneur (saloon owner, gambler and pimp) in a small mining town in the Pacific northwest. Julie Christie is a Madame. Christie's performance is better than expected. Beatty's performance is exactly as expected, he plays "Himself". Altman employs the same moviemaking style used in MASH, and heavily uses overlapping background conversations. The movie improves once the background conversations, and the background folk music score, cease. The widespread critical acclaim given this movie did not withstand the test time. It's a little dated and slightly stale. While decent enough, it is not a timeless Hollywood classic. Massively overhyped and fawned over by the Hollywood establishment, it is barely worth watching. The 1968-1970 온라인카지노추천 series 'Here Come the Brides' starring Bobby Sherman must have been Altman's inspiration for 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller' (both have the same backdrop). The series is as much of a western as is this movie.

A fairly good episode of Deadwood with an annoyingly whimsical soundtrack. The sound needs to be digitally remastered as it's horrible.

As far as Altman goes, this is one of his better flicks as he isn't everyone's taste. It is slow and would have benefited from more character development, but it is accessible, is beautiful to look at and seems to get better with each viewing. The ending, and in particular, the last half hour shootout in the snow is pure cinema magic.

Check out my podcast where David Lambert & I look back at Robert Altman's hauntingly beautiful western ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller' (1971): https://bit.ly/3k3Osd7