Few directors reshaped American cinema as radically—and as playfully—as Robert Altman. The Cinema of Robert Altman: Centennial Tribute pays tribute to Altman’s legacy by revisiting the films that defined him as a fearless innovator and iconoclast.For all titles and showtimes: https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/robert-altman-centennial-tribute/
SPECIAL WIDESCREEN WEDNESDAY 35MM PRESENTATION
Robert Altman, 120m, 1971
Starring: John Schuck, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Warren Beatty, William Devane
The story of a gambling man and a hustling lady and the empire they fashioned from the wilderness. Robert Altman’s dazzlingly original MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, stands the mythology of the Old West on its ear. Critics like Pauline Kael praised the film’s “perfectly realized, poetic western” and Roger Ebert hailed it as “one of the saddest, most beautiful of all films,” noting Vilmos Zsigmond’s snow-veiled cinematography and Leonard Cohen’s haunting songs that turn the story into what Kael called “a mournful ballad of capitalism and lost romance.
“They say that great actors are never knowingly caught acting; Altman’s best movies are similarly effortless – experiences to be lived in, rather than simply watched.”
Colin Kennedy, Empire
“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.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“STILL ROBERT ALTMAN’S BEST MOMENT, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
35mm print courtesy The Chicago Film Society.
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