THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)
Special Features: Intro by film historian Foster Hirsch on Oct. 18
Resetting Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles detective classic from the 1940s to the 1970s, Robert Altman and company created a one-of-a-kind film that gleefully breaks all the rules. Elliott Gould plays private eye Philip Marlowe as a mumbling oddball who is nonetheless the lone voice for moral order in a corrupt world. The groundbreaking camerawork — constantly gliding, never still — is by Vilmos Zsigmond. John Williams’ eponymous theme song recurs organically throughout the film, arranged variously as supermarket Muzak, a hippie chant and a song on the radio. DIR Robert Altman; SCR Leigh Brackett, from the novel by Raymond Chandler; PROD Jerry Bick. U.S., 1973, color, 112 min. RATED R
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, October 18, 2026
Genre: Film noir
Introduction