The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
When
Wed 13 May 2026
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A brothel entrepreneur (Warren Beatty) joins forces with an opium-addicted madam (Julie Christie, in a wonderfully modulated performance). Altman’s sleety folk Western is one of his most affecting and sadly humanistic films. Loosely based on Edmund Naughton’s novel, Altman’s moody masterpiece is an extraordinarily atmospheric and intemperate portrait of frontier life, the rise of modern capitalism and the “beautiful losers” who populate his greatest work.
Hauntingly scored with songs by Leonard Cohen, it also features Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy and Keith Carradine. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond pre-flashed the film stock to create the evocative, de-saturated images; Pauline Kael called it a “beautiful pipe dream of a movie”.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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