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Friday, Feb 7, 2025
7:00 PM (121 mins)
BAMPFA
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4K Digital Restoration
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Introduction
Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland. Weefur is an educator at Stanford University, a founding member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic, and the guest curator of Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After “The Searchers.”
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane,
Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity. The camera lingers below the horizon to take in the physical and social textures of the skeletal town of Presbyterian Church, where hustler McCabe (Warren Beatty) and Cockney madam Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) form a partnership to provide the services most needed by the local population: hot baths, booze, gambling, and whores. Their enterprise soon attracts the attention of bigger business interests prepared to call McCabe’s bluff; the climactic confrontation is not a showdown at high noon but a shambling pursuit through a blizzard.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Robert Altman
- Brian McKay
Based On
- McCabe by Edmund Naughton
Cinematographer
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 121 mins
Source
- Warner Bros.
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