When his old friend Terry Lennox (ably portrayed by former baseball player Jim Bouton) turns up late one night asking for a ride to Tijuana, Marlowe reluctantly performs the good deed for which he’ll spend the balance of the movie getting punished. In The Long Goodbye, Gould plays Philip Marlowe, a perpetually down-on-his-luck private investigator holding his life together with loose thread. Besides being the sort of occasion that made you grateful for a return to inhabiting other people’s physical presence, the screening highlighted what a valuable and challenging contribution to popular culture this film has always been. The guest of honor, star Elliott Gould, preceded the screening with fun and happily meandering reminiscences about the film and his exceptional career. The Long Goodbye, a 1973 neo-noir thriller, based on the 1953 novel by celebrated pulp scribe Raymond Chandler, was about to turn fifty. Last month, San Francisco’s distinguished Castro Theater provided the setting for a birthday party of sorts.
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