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
"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
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.
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.
― 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
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
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 (five years ago) link
love California Split
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:24 (five 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 (five years ago) link
moo vaughn really on a roll lately with bad opinions
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
there's a roll, and a lifetime roll
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:00 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Was it good for you, was I what you wanted me to be?
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:03 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
alright by me
― gr8080, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
california split has excellent fun shirts
― flopson, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Best animal performances ever?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 June 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
Minus your final criterion, I always recommend California Split to Long Goodbye stans looking for more in that vein.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
yeah that's definitely on the list
― ogmor, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
Long Goodbye >>>>> California Split
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
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
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 20 August 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Kim Morgan talks to Gould
http://thenewbev.com/blog/2019/01/elliott-gould-the-long-goodbye/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) 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
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
great movie and great book now im gonna check if ive made this post before
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 December 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 December 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
not enough love for uncredited arnie in the thread
― mark s, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link