Podcasts about robert altman's the long goodbye

Mike pressures Dan to finally watch Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973).  The two discuss what makes brilliant casting, the allure of Hollywood detectives, and the code of the private eye.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/15minutefilmfanatics/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/15minutefilmfanatics/support

Fish out of water movies are one of the most well-loved film genres, with Mr. Mom, Enchanted, Back to the Future, and Legally Blonde being perennial favorites. But MG being MG, we've gone slightly obscure with our selections: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, with Elliott Gould as a hard-boiled 40's-styled detective in New Age 70's LA, Hal Ashby's Being There, starring Peter Sellers as a childlike gardener who becomes a political guru, and Bill Forsyth's gently brilliant Local Hero, in which Peter Riegert tries to deliver a small Scottish town into the hands of an oil conglomerate. All a little strange, all a little sweet - and all, MG argues, deserve to be new classics.

We wrap up #Noirvember and our Philip Marlowe journey for the year with Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). Adapted by Leigh Brackett, one of the two main writers from Howard Hawks’s The Big Sleep, the film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe, a man now out of time with the world. Eric Cohen and Terry Frost join Mike to discuss Philip Marlowe's place in the now and the Japanese mini-series of The Long Goodbye.

Bob and Dan discuss Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), a Philip Marlowe noir that turns the genre on its head. Marlowe wakes up in the middle of the night to a hungry cat, and a good friend who needs a ride to Mexico. In the morning, the cops arrest Marlowe as an accessory to his friend's wife's murder. Things get weird after that. Other topics discussed: movies about other movies, soliloquies, the Jewish mob, and The Third Man. Follow our Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter: @MDMpodcast Follow Dan on Twitter: @DanWilbur

Our focus this podcast is on Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. The film is an attempt by Altman to bring a 50's Noir piece into his vision of the absurdity of 1970's Los Angeles. Is he successful? One of us thinks so!