So i'm obsessed with The Long Goodbye right now

^^Cosign.

I'm waiting for the right moment in my life to shout "BALLS, BABY!" at someone ala Sterling Hayden, but it hasn't happened yet. :-(

Love California Split!!!!

Beautiful 35mm print yesterday before a packed house. I always forget David Carradine's cameo as Socrates the cellmate ("Someday the pigs are gonna be in here and the people are gonna be out there").

btw I agree w/ the curator whose quote finishes up that otherwise pretty awful Times piece; people who think this is a "travesty" don't get it.

also can anyone confirm that the real-estate woman called Mrs Tewkesbury near the end of the film is not played by the Nashville screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury? I think per the iMdB she is an actress named Sybil Scotford.

"You're the nicest neighbor we've had Mr. Marlowe."

every watch love it more

the light(ing), in every single scene

"write the check, roger"

the blu ray of this looks like shit, needs a good restoration

harry i'm proud to have you following me

Which blu ray? The Region 2 Arrow blu isn't a 'restoration' but looks very good:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Long-Goodbye-Blu-ray/80397/

the region 1 one

I want to watch this again right now

I think this may latterly have become my favourite movie ever.

I would play the shit out of a video game that successfully evoked its soft-outta-focus, stoned and paranoid milieu.

i love this movie, also love the soundtrack as i've prob said upthread. definitely up there with my favourites.

at the weekend i watched the movie adaptation of john cheever's the swimmer - and it reminded me a bit of the long goodbye. i absolutely loved it.

I watched that earlier this year too. Really strange movie, a little overly mannered but kind of moving. Like The Graduate if Benjamin had been an awkward, burned-out philanderer rather than an anxious college student.

Yeah I found it pretty affecting, I was surprised it actually worked as a movie since the idea of adapting it felt so doomed. I love Cheever and in a way it made me like the short story even more, which is good.

It also had a nice haziness to it, I guess for a story that's about an alcoholic it really made me want to be by a pool in the sun drinking a cocktail.

Happy 45th anniversary to The Long Goodbye. I talked to @Cinephiliacs about why it’s one of the all-time greats: https://t.co/LhzJUBgZ8x

— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) March 7, 2018

very nice, thanks for the link ✌️

just the greatest movie

i saw California Split in 35mm on the big screen last weekend. it’s no Long Goodbye but still a great little film.

love California Split

Movie most overrated by people with decent taste? I think both director and actor are wrong for the movie, and the song gets really tiresome after a while.

moo vaughn really on a roll lately with bad opinions

there's a roll, and a lifetime roll

I mean there's "I don't like The Long Goodbye" and then there's "Robert Altman is the wrong director and Elliot Gould is the wrong actor for The Long Goodbye."

Was it good for you, was I what you wanted me to be?

"I don't like The Long Goodbye"

I wouldn't go that far, I just don't think Marlowe-via-Altman(/Gould) works very well.

If you have a tight-assed belief that the only purpose of a movie based on a book is to be faithful to the book then ok.

I certainly don't share that belief, whatever its sphincter-stenosis level, nor have I read the book. Nor am I more interested in Marlowe than Altman. I just don't find the revisionist noir a particularly interesting concept.

alright by me

california split has excellent fun shirts

Best animal performances ever?

been going round my head since I saw it at the cinema, such a supremely comfortable film. made a to-watch list of films noted as similar here and in the inherent vice/big lebowski thread, would be particularly curious if anyone can think of a film with a similar energy and agreeably dishevelled protaganist who isn't a white american guy

Minus your final criterion, I always recommend California Split to Long Goodbye stans looking for more in that vein.

yeah that's definitely on the list

Long Goodbye >>>>> California Split

excerpt from a new book

https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/book-excerpt-its-okay-with-me-hollywood-the-1970s-and-the-return-of-the-private-eye-by-jason-bailey

would be particularly curious if anyone can think of a film with a similar energy and agreeably dishevelled protaganist who isn't a white american guy

― ogmor, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 5:11 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chameleon street

Kim Morgan talks to Gould

http://thenewbev.com/blog/2019/01/elliott-gould-the-long-goodbye/

Saw it on a big screen on a Sunday last year with a packed house. Best part 'in the cinema' was the suicide-by-sea; waves crashing at incredible volume, that amazing continuous take.

Do the blu-rays still look bad? I know the old DVD looked famously terrible. Screenshots look kinda murky

https://images3.static-bluray.com/reviews/11004_3.jpg

great movie and great book now im gonna check if ive made this post before

there it is

maybe the best book/movie combo ever as far as both of them being most excellent

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not enough love for uncredited arnie in the thread

His appearance suffers from its proximity to Marty Di Bergi's Augustine's Coke bottle assault.

my favourite altman by a very long way

second equal: secret honor and popeye

(i haven't seen all the others)

Do the blu-rays still look bad? I know the old DVD looked famously terrible. Screenshots look kinda murky

It was always murky. Zsigmond flashed (exposed) the film prior to shooting so it would look like that.

the Kino blu ray looks fine