MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER

Presbyterian Church is a small mining town in the turn-of-the century Pacific Northwest - and a perfect placewhere gambler John Q. McCabe and bordello madam Constance Miller can do business. Robert Altman's dazzlingly original McCabe & Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie (a 1971 Best Actress Academy Award nominee for her work here), 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, coupled with the edgy modern sensibility Altman brought to his other '70s masterworks M*A*S*H and Nashville. The spellbinding result, critic Pauline Kael wrote, is "a modern classic.";