So i'm obsessed with The Long Goodbye right now

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

"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 ✌️

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)