By Sreejith Kamalanayanan McCabe&Mrs Miller (1971) is the second straight Warren Beatty film I watched recently. Though Beatty impressed me with his performances in Parallax View and McCabe , he wasn't the reason I watched McCabe&Mrs Miller --it's for Robert Altman, the maverick director. Before starting to talk about the revisionist western McCabe and Mrs Miller, I feel impelled to look at the style and vision of Altman. The first Altman movie I ever watched was The Long Goodbye (1973). I bought the DVD thinking it's a detective movie. Yes, It was a detective movie, but I didn't get the kind of pleasure that I was expecting from a detective movie. It doesn't mean The Long Goodbye disappointed me, but I got a different kind of enjoyment out of it. Director Robert Altman This first experience with Altman precisely sums up what to expect when you go to watch an Altman movie , "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED." If you give a script of a g...