And he excelled with takes on various genres: there’s plenty of interest in Altman’s revisionist western McCabe and Mrs.

I personally don’t care for some of Altman’s pictures but find plenty to enjoy in some of his spacier efforts, like Three Women. Birchard shook his head, visibly offended that the man from Kansas City could make bomb after box office bomb and keep his career on track. Critics (especially Pauline Kael) treated Altman as if he were God’s gift to the cinema, while good old Robert S. Robert Altman didn’t get much praise from my college friends back when his films were new. Written by Leigh Brackett from the novel by Raymond Chandler Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Enrique Lucero, Ken Sansom, David Carradine, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Street Date Decem/ available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 And darn it, he cares about his pet cat.ġ973 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 112 min. Elliott Gould’s mellow Marlowe may be unfocused and sloppy, but he still subscribes to the old ethics, particularly where friendship and betrayal are concerned. It’s also a terrific Los Angeles film, from Marlowe’s Hollywood apartment to the Malibu Colony, and a dangster’s Sunset Blvd. The characters are vivid, as portrayed by Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, and Mark Rydell.

Is this show a hatchet job on Raymond Chandler’s confidential agent, or do Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett honestly find a place for Philip Marlowe in the laid-back 1970s? Vilmos Zsigmond’s even more laid-back ‘pushed and pre-flashed’ cinematography made industry news by shooting in places that normally needed three times more artificial light.

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