McCabe & Mrs. Miller
An unorthodox Western by Robert Altman about a professional gambler who, together with the cunning Mrs Miller, runs a casino/brothel in a rough mining town. Their success is threatened by a wealthy businessman who wants to buy them out.
This may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to a fictional Pacific Northwest mining town called Presbyterian Church. They join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience.
The appearance of representatives for a powerful mining company with interests of its own threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting ballads by Leonard Cohen, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamourized and revitalized the most American of genres. (source: The Criterion Collection)