So i'm obsessed with The Long Goodbye right now

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

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)