Film
The Long Goodbye
- Director
- Robert Altman
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 107 mins
The film to which Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice owes, well, rather a lot, Robert Altman’s very ’70s take on Raymond Chandler’s final novel has a splendidly laid-back Elliot Gould as PI Philip Marlowe, who becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine murder case involving a drunken novelist (Sterling Hayden), the writer’s much-younger wife (Nina van Pallandt), a quack Dr. Feelgood (Henry Gibson), a Jewish gangster (Mark Rydell), and many others.
It makes a welcome return to the big screen in celebration of John Williams’ jazzy score in the Watershed’s The Early Scores of John Williams Sunday brunch season, which is in turn part of Filmic 19.
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