McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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Movie Reviews of McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Movie Review: A lifetime favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
This film stunned me when I first viewed it in 1971. I was 20 and living dangerously in L.A. No attachments, evenings spent riding a Norton on Malibu Cyn Hwy, and seeing how much I could cram into everyday's experience.
Three things in this movie stopped me in my tracks. The music, by Leonard Cohen, the cinematography by Vilmos Szigmond, and the precise control of Robert Altman.
Now, 34 years later, this film still arrests me. The fact that the filmed town 'grew' as the movie developed, that the cast members lived the life in the environment that they portrayed, the willful but gentle portrayl of human weakness, warmth, and prejudice, causes me to consistantly appreciate the salvation that people seek, in whatever form, to make them whole somehow. I'm sure a lot of little criticisms can be made for the film effects, the sparse storyline, the staid pacing, but this is an 'old' film.
Looking at it now and again, I still can feel the rain turning to sleet, I can smell the lousy interiors of the buildings, I can feel the damned mud under my boots, I can feel the isolation of McCabe as he faces his murderers in the end. They surely do not make movies like this anymore, nor have for a long time.
Movie Review: Only a Handful of Great Westerns & This Is One of Them!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Red River" and "Unforgiven" top my list of the greatest Westerns ever made. Right behind those classics is this film. Director Robert Altman gives us the West as it probably really was if you can peel back the stuff of myth and legend. Warren Beatty and Julie Christie play the hardly heroic leads who are trying to reinvent themselves in the West out of lack of other choices. Beatty is a very flawed, somewhat cowardly entrepreneur while Christie is a madam for the local prostitutes, potentially a much better entrepreneur, albeit a bit of a hop head. They have an affair of sorts that is about the best this twosome can ever hope to have and that's not saying much. After you experience living in this hard scrabble, barely standing town, you will be so glad you were not a hearty pioneer! I know I am. There is nothing glamorous or romantic about this existence in the least and Altman does not flinch from the task of laying before us the unvarnished West. Beatty and Christie also do not flinch from playing these disreputable founders of the Old West.Movie Review: Superb -- Then and Now
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I watched McCabe and Mrs. Miller tonight, some thirty-four years after the first time. It's all still fresh, the mud and ugliness of a new town in turn of the century west, the inarticulate missed connections of love between the two protagonists, McCabe's isolation in the town he made and Leonard Cohen's weary soundtrack scoring it all. Despite many moments of humor, there is still no doubt for a minute that this West is headed for a tragic ending. And when it comes, in a fortuitous snowstorm, it is a brilliantly choreographed one-on-three quarter-hour showdown. (Cold Mountain's climax from a couple years ago is, I now realize with this refreshed viewing of McCabe, a pale carbon copy of Altman's work.) Nashville will always be my favorite Altman but he was certainly in peak form here as well. Quibbles: you'll strain your eyes and ears. Many of the scenes are shot very darkly and the soundtrack is frequently low and muddy.Movie Review: Two shared loneliness!
Summary: 5 Stars
This western is absolutely unusual until you realize Robert Altman is the camera eye. The world of two outsiders, who eventually meet one each other to become a common society. To instal a bordhel in the West.
Robert Altman has been one of the most intelligent and enigmatic directors in any age. He works out with the camera was a true scalpel and disects the human nature from all the angles: difuse, violent, oscure and metaphoric.
Through the years, Altman has not got back every single inch in this approach. He likes to work in the insanity's frontiers, surrounded by the febrile anguish and desperation: in this sense, he is very closed to Werner Herzog, despite Altman is more urban than him.
Warren Beaty grow up as any other actor working with Julie Christie, one of the most remarkable female icons of the stardom in those ages.
Go for this cult movie, so many times forgotten for a broad audience.
Movie Review: A gripping drama to the end - a must see!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of Julie Chistie and Leonard Cohen, this is the movie for you!
Set in a Northwest mining town, the storyline is both rough as the miners but with humor and wit as Christie, as Madame Mrs. Miller, brings the finer qualities of the world's oldest profession to the crude but growing town.
But, as in the days of the mining companies and factory company stores of the time, a mining concern makes gambler McCabe an offer that he shouldn't have refused - to sell his interests in the bordello and saloon.
For fiction, the story represents an authentic view of the culture of the time and location - a gripping drama to the end.
I saw the movie when it came out in the early 1970's, and was very pleased to see that the master had been reproduced as a DVD, and was able to purchase it through Amazon.com at a great price - I love the classics!