The Long Goodbye
film by Altman [1973]
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s
With the The Long Goodbye (1973) Altman reworked another classic genre. This time he deconstructed the iconic hard-boiled private eye at the centre of so much film noir. Gould provided an aggressively antiheroic, ignoble portrayal of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist in the 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler…
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film noir
- In film noir: The legacy of film noir
…Part II (1974); Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973); Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974); Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat (1981); and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980).
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role of Rydell
- In Mark Rydell
…other movies, including Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973); Sydney Pollack’s Havana (1990), in which he played gangster Meyer Lansky; and Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending (2002). He later appeared in the comedy Chicanery (2017).
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