The Long Goodbye (1973)
95 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 20 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis: Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a relatively unsuccessful private eye living and working in 1970s Los Angeles.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell
Director: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett
Story: Raymond Chandler
Producer: Jerry Bick
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett
Story: Raymond Chandler
Producer: Jerry Bick
Composer: John Williams
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Reviews
Everywhere you look, there's something delightfully weird going on ... Altman and company fashion a state of slouching, freeform Zen that no one else has ever really duplicated.
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07/11/07
When he was very near the top of his early peak, [Robert] Altman did the darnedest thing and made a private-eye movie -- or maybe a parody of a private-eye movie; it's hard to say. And he may never have topped it.
06/15/07
Simultaneously an act of revisionism as well as a parody of then-revitalizing neo-noir.
04/18/07
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06/24/06
The reluctant and satirical mystery is one of the great Los Angeles movies and makes a great compliment to, say, The Big Lebowski.
09/13/05
Top Critic
It ends up with mixed results -- Marlowe is drawn as a goofy daydreamer (Altman calls him Rip Van Marlowe) and his story only gets interesting when Sterling Hayden, channeling Hemingway, goes bananas.
09/14/03
Top Critic
Altman's generalized misanthropy fits uncomfortably with the overall noir universe.
03/10/03
It may not be exactly like the novel but then this Philip Marlowe is nothing like anything ever seen before.
11/19/02
...may not please Chandler purists, but it is an endlessly fascinating movie in any case.... If it all seems a bit surrealistic, that's the way it's meant to be.
08/29/02
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