Hoezo in KINO

“Will you do me a favor? Go back to your gumshoes and your transom peeping and let us alone.” Robert Altman’s loose, licentious ode to 50’s noir sports meandering cinematography (and ditto plot), a snazzy jazz score and a perfectly nonchalant Elliot Gould as the updated Philip Marlow incarnation. Much of the Raymond Chandler’s novel’s internal dialogue is conveyed through Gould casually muttering to himself, working his way through the mystery. This keeps exposition to a minimum and preserves the feel of the novel. It’s the director and acting talent at his very best and The Long Goodbye was a great influence on the work of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights and Inherent Vice. Added bonus: look out for a (wisely) wordless yet peak physique Schwarzenegger cameo! English language without subtitles.