Participants in April’s First Sunday Zoom kindly submitted to being recorded while discussing the 1973 film version of Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, which we watched as a group. How did people feel about Elliot Gould playing the classic 1940s gumshoe? What about all those naked women (too much, too little)? And was it possible to appreciate director Robert Altman’s update only once you’ve gone through the looking glass of post-Helter Skelter Los Angeles?
Also mentioned:
Eclipse fever and “big moon energy”
Critics’ love/hate affair with Robert Altman
Uncredited cameos in The Long Goodbye
Sarah is never going to a Russian cat circus again
Should we care about the artist or just his art? A semi-heated exchange!
“Fuck you, Shakespeare.”
A dystopian Hollywood memoir by the guy Al Pacino shot in the throat …
Sarah cannot stop watching Taxi Driver; Nancy wants to watch Marathon Man incessantly, and not only because of peak Roy Scheider hotness.
Too many photos of a young Brooke Shields in the Zoom notes
A BABY makes a special appearance!!
And much more! Zoom meet-ups for paid subscribers only, first Sunday of each month. Pantheon of cinematic Marlowes after the pay wall. See you in May!
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