I don’t think I’ve seen this before? I’ve always been thinking “I should watch all of Robert Altman’s movies”, but it’s never happened.
And Elliott Gould? He was always around, like. I mean, when looking at lists of 70s movies, he was in so many of them… but never in the really great movies?
OK, there’s some notable movies there — M*A*S*H and Bob & Carol & etc, but also Capricorn One and S*P*Y*S.
Gould has always seemed like such a cool actor… but then he’s in these awful roles…
Oh, I didn’t make the connection — this is a Philip Marlowe movie! Right, I knew that…
Hehe, I love all this rigmarole with the cat food.
I really like the way Altman frames his shots. Often from quite a far ways away, and through various doorways or whatever.
Hey, that’s whatsisface!
I also like these caps the nurses wear. When did they stop doing that?
This movie is really terrific. Gould is perfect in this role — insouciant, exasperated and funny — and it’s just got this flow… I really should watch all of Altman’s movies.
Do those exist!?
Wow. Not any more, but they did.
I think this is supposed to illustrate that we’re in Mexico now.
Is this where Trump got the idea for his hairdo?
Hey, that’s Arnold!
Heh, I wonder how much of these shenanigans were in the original novel — it’s like a parody of an insane crime boss: It’s like all the Fraudian subtext of a character is made into text.
And presumably the yoga women are a new invention.
Anyway… with good movies you often say “it seemed so short!” This one didn’t — I found myself checking the clock, thinking an hour had passed, and it was fifteen minutes. But I kinda liked that, too.
The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman. 1973. ⚄
