Robert Altman, the Blackguard of American Elections
At times it feels as if Altman is forcing us to drink drain cleaner in order for us to feel the gut wrenching pain of the farce that American democracy has become.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
On Robert Altman’s Subversive Anti-western, ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’
McCabe & Mrs. Miller toys with and subverts western tropes and traditions while flat out refusing to fall into others.
The Power of Bullshit in ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’
In McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the 1971 western directed by Robert Altman, bullshit seems like the stuff empires are built on, but as we quickly come to find out, it can also turn to quicksand.