McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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- In Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s
…response to Altman’s next film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), but, as time passed, praise grew for this revisionist “anti-western,” Cowritten by Altman, it was a film of rare beauty, set at the turn of the 20th century in a boomtown in the Pacific Northwest, and it offered a symbolic…
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- In Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s
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- In Warren Beatty
… in Robert Altman’s revisionist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and played the lead in Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid thriller The Parallax View (1974). His next big hit was Shampoo (1975), a comic sex romp, flavoured with a left-wing sensibility, that Beatty starred in, produced, and wrote with Robert Towne.…
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- In Warren Beatty
- Christie
- In Julie Christie
…and in Altman’s period western McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), she won another Oscar nomination for her portrait of a tough, unflappable madam. In Roeg’s disturbing psychological thriller Don’t Look Now (1973)—a film that has become something of a cult classic—Christie turned in what was perhaps her most emotionally layered…
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- In Julie Christie