So i'm obsessed with The Long Goodbye right now

as long as we're posting vintage Gould movies, here's a sweet little tribute that's trending on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsW0JBaFr98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuSOatncAdw&feature=related

re that apartment:

http://la.curbed.com/tags/the-long-goodbye

Morbs, you wanna split the rent? Oh, I forgot, you hate roommates.

Some of the contemporaneous reviews are SO savage. Halliwell's Film Guide: "ugly, boring travesty..."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, April 30, 2007 1:51 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Contemporaneous reviews otm. So Altman wanted to rip the heart out of the book as some kind of comment on 70s hollywood? idgi. Everything about the film seems deliberately obtuse, right down to the forgettable song trying to become unforgettable by 'incidentally' occurring in every other scene.

This is playing this week on a double bill with California Split but we're only going to see California Split.

So Altman wanted to rip the heart out of the book as some kind of comment on 70s hollywood?

This angle is much too publicized, like most intentions.

have only read The Big Sleep, but I dind it hard to believe that a Chandler book had a heart.

The road to angle is paved with good publicized.

netflix just put this up on streaming I think

my fav book/movie combo is lolita but this one is up there

have only read The Big Sleep, but I dind it hard to believe that a Chandler book had a heart.

Marlowe definitely a big-hearted guy in TLG. Also has a way with the one-liners, which would have been worth keeping in the movie even if nothing else was.

guys the best adaptations are untrue to the source material, it really does not matter

yeah, love how altman made this movie his own. he could have gone the "chinatown" route but it didn't interest him to do a period noir.

I don't mind a radical adaptation but this pisses on Chandler's grave.

House of Games has the same ending btw - duped schmo kills the duper. Don't have much time for that either.

glad you have time to post tho

and it happens every day

That title track is incredible.

Wowed by this

that's fine by me.

I feel this is the most accurate screen Marlowe, most like the character in the novels. Bogey be damned.

Sterling hayden

I climbed the stairs to the elevator landing of Marlowe's apartment last week.

same apt shows up in murder my sweet iirc

sterling hayden is really great in this

Robert Altman on the filming of THE LONG GOODBYE: "Sterling Hayden did the same scene twice, once drunk and once stoned, and he was great both times."

Tower Apartments also in Branagh's crappy Dead Again

branagh's accent in dead again is a thing of wonder

I didn't take this, but when I get mine out of the camera it will look just like it.

http://www.nileguide.com/destination/blog/los-angeles/files/2010/10/ALTA_LOMA_691.jpg

branagh's accent in dead again Celebrity is a thing of wonder

― balls,

branagh ruins that movie with his woody impression throughout, same with cusack in bullets over broadway

Cusack is the best of the Woody impersonators.

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/apa/4782116230.html

Ah man, such a memorable apartment

and you're allowed to keep cats in it!

breaking news:

Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Popular Again

aw it's not on Netflix any more :(

Definitely one of a handful of Altmans worth owning, even if you aren't a superfan.

The tiny harmonica

seeing it again at MoMA next Sunday

Had a year and a half with this film, over and over and over....

Thinking I will have some time with Model Shop.

California Split is great if you need more Altman/Gould in your life btw

^^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

"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

― ice cr?m, Monday, August 1, 2011 12:04 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

I know I've plugged it elsewhere, but my other Gould 70s fave is the Curtis Hanson penned Silent Partner, which boasts an eerily Long Goodbye esque beach scene, except...it's The Beaches in Toronto.

I've been meaning to see that, maybe this Xmas season (if all goes well)