The Long Goodbye
| Program section: | Starring Philip Marlowe |
|---|---|
| Directed by: | Robert Altman |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Country: | USA |
| Length: | 112 min. |
| Cast: | Elliot Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson and others. |
Screening:
- 20. 8. 2026 | 15:00 - LoGyn Hall (castle - western room) / CZ subs /
- 22. 8. 2026 | 17:15 - Cinema Sokol Č. Šternberk (below castle - Sokolovna) / CZ subs /
Production: Lion’s Gate Films, United Artists
Script/Based on: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler
Director of Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Score: John Williams
In the first half of the 1970s, Robert Altman systematically built a reputation as a filmmaker who updated, reimagined, or outright deconstructed established genres. After a war film (MASH) and a Western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), in 1972 he adapted Raymond Chandler’s novel The Long Goodbye, thereby entering the tradition of film noir. The film deviates significantly from the source material and uses the detective story format as a vehicle for social criticism and a self-aware commentary on the noir genre and Hollywood itself. While the novel is set at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, the film is set in the early 1970s – a time of political violence and controversial war conflicts when all innocence had vanished. Philip Marlowe, portrayed by Elliot Gould, comes across as an anachronism; his appearance and demeanor seem out of this world, and the moral code by which he lives is incompatible with the corruption that permeates everything and everyone around him. (mh)
