THE LONG GOODBYE

Director Robert Altman x screenwriter Leigh Brackett x actor Elliott Gould = The Long Goodbye

Two novelists celebrate the brilliant alchemy of director, screenwriter and actor

Robert Altman’s detective drama finds private eye Philip Marlowe wayward in 1970s Los Angeles, implicated in the murder of a close friend's wife. With the director’s idiosyncratic style, Leigh Brackett’s loose but faithful script adaptation (she also co-wrote Howard Hawks’s adaptation of The Big Sleep) and Elliott Gould’s sly performance, The Long Goodbye remains a cornerstone of modern noir and a favorite of novelist Emma Cline (The Girls, The Guest).

Cline, joined by Galerie’s Christopher Bollen (author of Havoc), will chat about what makes this 1973 adaptation so unforgettable. “Nobody cares but me,” laments Marlowe. Not true—and we’ll tell you why.