The Long Goodbye
<div><b>Book tickets for two or more of our </b><b><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/noirvember">Noirvember</a></b><b> films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>PERFECT PAIRS: Book tickets for both</b><b> <i>The Long Goodbye</i></b><b> and </b><b><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/short-cuts-35mm"><i>Short Cuts</i> (35mm)</a> </b><b>in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b></div><div><br></div><div>Despite cries of outrage from hard-line Chandler purists, this is, along with Howard Hawks' <i><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-big-sleep">The Big Sleep</a></i>, one of the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of the writer's work. Altman in fact stays pretty close to the novel's basic narrative (though there are a couple of crucial changes), but where he comes up with something totally original is in his ironic updating of the story and characters: Gould's Philip Marlowe is a laid-back, shambling slob who, despite his incessant claim that everything is <i>"OK with me"</i>, actually harbours the same honourable ideals as Chandler's Marlowe. However, those values, Altman implies, just don't fit in with the neurotic, uncaring, ephemeral lifestyle led by the "Me Generation" of modern LA.</div><div><br></div><div>As Marlowe attempts to protect a friend suspected of battering his wife to death, and gets up to his neck in blackmail, suicide, betrayal and murder, Altman constructs not only a comment on the changes in values in America over the last three decades, but a critique of film noir mythology. Shot in gloriously steely colours by Vilmos Zsigmond with a continually moving camera, wondrously scripted by Leigh Brackett (who worked on <i>The Big Sleep</i>), and superbly acted all round, it's one of the finest movies of the '70s.</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>"</i><i>Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler, is one of the quintessential noir characters. Some would say it’s hard to beat the Humphrey Bogart’s portrayal in </i>The Big Sleep<i> but I’d say Elliott Gould comes into his own in the 70s modern adaptation by Robert Altman. Whilst being made across Golden Age Hollywood and New Hollywood, both films feature writing credit for the incredibly prolific Leigh Brackett."</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>- Written by Raymah Tariq, Programme Manager</i></div></div>MysteryPT1H55M182026-11-29USenElliott Gould
Nina van Pallandt
Sterling Hayden
Robert Altman
Leigh Brackett
Jerry Bick
The Long Goodbye"The Long Goodbye"Showtimes
November 29, 5:00 pm
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