So i'm obsessed with The Long Goodbye right now

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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

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link

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

― balls,

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link

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

a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link

Cusack is the best of the Woody impersonators.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 July 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

Ah man, such a memorable apartment

Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link

and you're allowed to keep cats in it!

you fuck one chud... (stevie), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link

breaking news:

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

gr8080, Monday, 8 December 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link

aw it's not on Netflix any more :(

gr8080, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link

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

Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 December 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link

The tiny harmonica

, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link

seeing it again at MoMA next Sunday

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 December 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link

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

*tera, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link

Thinking I will have some time with Model Shop.

*tera, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link

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

gr8080, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link

^^Cosign.

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 December 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link

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. :-(

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 December 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link

Love California Split!!!!

*tera, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 07:06 (nine years ago) link

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").

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 December 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link

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.

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 December 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link

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.

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 December 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link

six months pass...

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

hunangarage, Saturday, 4 July 2015 07:19 (eight years ago) link

every watch love it more

the light(ing), in every single scene

drash, Saturday, 4 July 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link

"write the check, roger"

drash, Saturday, 4 July 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

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

flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 06:16 (six years ago) link

harry i'm proud to have you following me

flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link

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/

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 November 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link

the region 1 one

flappy bird, Thursday, 30 November 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link

I want to watch this again right now

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link

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

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link

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

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 November 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link

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.

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 November 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

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

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link

very nice, thanks for the link ✌️

flappy bird, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link

just the greatest movie

the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

gr8080, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link

love California Split

papa don't take no meth (stevie), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link

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, Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link

moo vaughn really on a roll lately with bad opinions

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link

there's a roll, and a lifetime roll

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link

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."

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link

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

Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link

"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.

Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link

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.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link

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.

Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 29 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link

alright by me

gr8080, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link

california split has excellent fun shirts

flopson, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Best animal performances ever?

Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 June 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link


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