My 150 Favorite Movies - #137

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Elliott Gould, at first glance, may seem like nobody's choice to play Philip Marlowe, however, he is so uncool as to be cool, albeit in a very unmachismo fashion. Robert Altman reinvents Marlowe for the seventies, and the time and place seem to suit. It's film noir, but in a somewhat disheveled Altman-like fashion. It's a movie that can be watched over and over again, and still find something new therein.