As a counterweight, the movie contains two startling acts of violence; both blindside us, and neither is in the original Raymond Chandler novel. The Hollywood Reporter's original review of the United Artists film is below. Robert Altman's film of Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye, produced by Jerry Bick from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett, is as witty as any movie ever made.

I started the movie with what I pretended was an open mind, but a secret hope that I'd be fully justified in hating it. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett. The Long Goodbye is a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood that never loses sight of what Los Angeles has become.

The Long Goodbye

The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. The Long Goodbye movie reviews & Metacritic score: Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's The Long Goodbye rides off furiously in too many different directions with too many gratuitously Godardian camera movements to make even one. Триллер, драма, комедия. Режиссер: Роберт Олтмен. В ролях: Эллиотт Гулд, Нина Ван Палландт, Стерлинг Хейден и др. От частного детектива Филипа Марлоу ушла кошка. В ту же ночь к Филипу явился Терри Леннокс, старый друг, и попросил подбросить его до Тихуаны. A video essay about the Robert Altman film The Long Goodbye. Most of the clips are taken from the Movie Clips Youtube channel. Starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden. A pretty good movie, a pretty bad adaptation of a great book.

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Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for The Long Goodbye. Director Robert Altman offended the fans of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe character by completely subverting the role here. The film is simultaneously an act of revisionism as well as a parody of then-revitalizing neo-noir.

Romola Garai's Amulet centers around the much-discussed horror movie trope of the arcane or abject mother figure, combining its critical take on the typically masculine fear of. This is what The Long Goodbye is comprised of. A deep seating love for the genre it belongs to, while at the same time making the audience realize that we're NOT in The plot of the movie unfolds much like the plot of film noirs does. It serves so as there is something on the screen to happen, more so for.