great film, but it looked and felt so different that i'll have to see it again before placing it among my top faves

Beautifully shot anti-western. Warren Beatty as the simple businessman John McCabe is absolutely perfect. Julie Christie keeps up with him the whole way in this alluring tale. Seemingly interesting music choices are truly fitting. Wonderful ending on top of that.

This is a surprisingly brutal anti-western with barely any sympathetic people nor heroes or villains really. The whole point was to showcase the trials and tribulations of a grimy frontier town where law and order goes only as far as a man's word. There is a fatalistic edge to their world. Warren Beatty turns in an excellent performance as a morally bankrupt card dealer, drunk, and brothel owner. This is probably one of Altman's finest and most memorable films.

One of the greatest westerns ever made. Arguably Altman's most memorable work, and easily his most haunting.

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For once a truly unique western that explores and reinvents the genre. The village setting of snow, mud and wood combined with Leonard Cohen's wonderful debut album on the soundtrack creates a melancholic atmosphere that will stay with you for a long time.

Obscurely scripted, muddy-coloured and harshly recorded Western melodrama whose squalid 'realism' comes as close to fantasy as does _The Wizard of Oz_.

Spellbinding, masterful western, with dogged Beatty in arguably the performance of his career, matched by convincingly de-glamourised Christie, and wonderfully venal support work by Auberjonois. Altman's legendary stylistic devices are on full display here, with masterful use of the widescreen format and dreamy camerawork. Film works on a subconscious level rather than literal, and is all the more successful for it. Haunting soundtrack by Leonard Cohen the icing on a genuine masterpiece.

A unique and beautiful Western. Its tragedy feels almost inevetible, but when it hits, it hits hard.

A fervently lyrical masterpiece where the curious images clearly suggest more than the trivial words... It has an archaic yet modern feel, and a sense of devastating yet almost romantic despair impossible to confront with detachment.

When this gets going, in the bar and brothel milieu, or with the combative relationship between the eponymous pair, or in the haunting showdown, it's phenomenal. The dirty light is gorgeously captured, lending the town much of its remote character. I take issue with Altman's decision to alter McCabe's portrayal suddenly in conjunction with the reveal about his identity, but the shift is necessary to inject tension into the final sequence, a true classic despite the regrettable fake snow effects.

Really slow movie, but definitely worth its while. Great performances and a great ending. Shittiest sound mix ever, though, in the first 30-40 minutes, that is. Have never heard a more human-brain-confusing mix of dialogue and background noises. But that's Altman for you, I guess. :D

lovely film, sorta meh story.

This (post-)western is Altman at his genre-tweaking best. McCabe is an absolutely wonderful character, the best role of Beatty's career. 'The Last Picture Show' also premiered in 1971 which shall henceforth be known as the year of masterful cinematic elegies.

A great Altman anti-western, using and subverting the conventions of the genre to make a very interesting character study. The story is pretty thin but it's the way McCabe's character gets slowly revealed through its key points that makes it work. Christie's character, while more in the background is just as interesting as a strong and intelligent madam.