McCabe and Mrs. Miller DVD

'McCabe and Mrs. Miller' Director: Robert Altman (1971)

Robert Altman's dazzingly unorthodox dream Western stands the mythology of the Old West on its ear. Shot on beautiful Vancouver wilderness locations, it captures the essence of a long-ago time, couple with the edgy modern sensibility Altman brought to his other '70s masterworks.

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie star as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. With its fascinating, flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond (The Hired Hand), innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorised and revitalised the most American of genres.