The early 1970s marked the culmination of a seismic shift in the Western genre, a transformation from mythic heroism to unflinching revisionism. While earlier films like *The Searchers* or *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* had begun to interrogate the romanticism of the American frontier, it was the cultural ferment of the Vietnam War era that catalysed a full rejection of the genre’s foundational myths. Enter Robe…
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The screenplay by Altman and Brian McKay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. Set in Washington State during the early 1900s, the film follows a mysterious gambler and alleged shootist (Beatty) who recruits a British madam (Christie) to run a boomtown brothel,…
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