ABOUT THE EVENT:

11:00am | Doors open & Live musical performance by pianist Chris Dawson

12:00pm | Introduction by Eddie Muller

12:10pm | THE LONG GOODBYE

2:02pm | Q&A with actor Elliott Gould. Moderated by Eddie Muller.

Start times are approximate.

ABOUT THE FILM:

Philip Marlowe wakes up from a twenty-year nap to find that Los Angeles has only gotten screwier in his absence. The private detective gets a postmodern update with THE LONG GOODBYE, a rambling adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. There are some crucial changes made by screenwriter Leigh Brackett, but to get hung up on the machinations of the plot is to miss the point entirely. Sure, Marlowe wants to solve the case, but there are stretches where he seems more interested in cat-food brands or making sure the goons tailing him don’t get lost. The film is so committed to its irreverent worldview that you become invested in these tangents, too. Elliott Gould redefines “cool” as Marlowe, and director Robert Altman has so much fun playing with noir clichés that he works in over a dozen versions of the hardboiled theme song.