McCabe and Mrs. Miller
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Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a terribly misguided waste of time for both director and viewer. Certain technical devices are its only noteworthy achievements, which sadly do very little to rescue the film. Altman has some talent and originality, but his faults tend to outweigh his virtues. It is his innovations, like shooting a whole complex scene from a high vantage point with a constantly panning zoom lens pushing and pulling to follow the action, as he did in the last chaotic scene in Nashville that critics tend to dicuss, but they are more interesting to read about than to watch. His stylistic penchants mark his films as different, but they end up more affectations and self-indulgence than aids in telling interesting, meaningful stories. Made in 1971 when faster film stocks and radio microphones were beginning to liberate filmmakers from depending on overlit Hollywood sound stages to recreate the world around us, Altman and Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond went
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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