SAT 13 AUG
Coming Soon to
Cinema 21
120 mins |
Rated
TBC
Directed by Robert Altman
Starring Keith Carradine, Warren Beatty, Rene Auberjonois, Shelley Duvall, Julie Christie
Part 5 in Our SEVEN FROM THE SEVENTIES series. All screenings at 11am on their respective Saturdays, on our BIG SCREEN. With intro and film insight from our friend and legendary film programmer, Elliot Lavine.
Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligence's and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.
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Part 5 in Our SEVEN FROM THE SEVENTIES series. All screenings at 11am on their respective Saturdays, on our BIG SCREEN. With intro and film insight from our friend and legendary film programmer, Elliot Lavine.
Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. The whorehouse thrives and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligence's and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. He refuses, and his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.