McCabe & Mrs. Miller (25th Anniversary Screening – Hosted by Oz Perkins)

Academy Award winners Warren Beatty and Julie Christie star in director Robert Altman‘s enduring vision of the American Western.

A gambler and a prostitute go into business together in a grimy Western mining town as they cater to the vices of the morally bankrupt residents. But their success attracts notice by corporate interests that are too big and too ruthless for the pair to fight in this gritty romantic drama. Based on the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton.

“They say that great actors are never knowingly caught acting; Robert Altman’s best movies are similarly effortless – experiences to be lived in, rather than simply watched.” (Empire Magazine)

“‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’ is like no other Western ever made, and with it, Robert Altman earns his place as one of the best contemporary directors.” (Rogert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)

“The movie haunts you like a ballad whose tune you remember but whose words hang just beyond reach. And like listening to a ballad, we know the outcome of the events we’re watching was foretold long ago, but we’re helpless to do anything but surrender.” (Salon.com)

“One of the best of Robert Altman’s early movies, using classic themes — the ill-fated love of gambler and whore, the gunman who dies by the gun, the contest between little man and big business — to produce a non-heroic Western.” (Time Out)

“Robert Altman’s capacity for fashioning an oddball romance without defeating the tough political implications of the story make this one of the greatest of all westerns and a key work in American cinema.” (London Evening Standard)

Sunday, May 17
MCCABE AND MRS MILLER
Doors 12:45 pm | Movie 1:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
3:45 pm *As this film is screening as part of a double bill, the start time is approximate.

Double Bill Tickets HERE

MCCABE & MRS MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971 / 121 mins / 18A)A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote, grimy Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.