{"product_id":"the-long-goodbye-blu-ray","title":"The Long Goodbye (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNothing Says Goodbye Like a Bullet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is visited by an old friend, this sets in train a series of events in which he's hired to search for a missing novelist (Sterling Hayden) and finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangsters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo far so faithful to Raymond Chandler, but Robert Altman's inspired adaptation of the writer's most personal novel takes his legendary detective and relocates him to the selfish, hedonistic culture of 1970s Hollywood, where he finds that his old-fashioned notions of honour and loyalty carry little weight, and even his smoking (universal in film noir) is now frowned upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely misunderstood at the time, The Long Goodbye is now regarded as one of Altman's best films and one of the outstanding American films of its era, with Gould's shambling, cat-obsessed Marlowe ranking alongside more outwardly faithful interpretations by Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion B Blu-ray (Australian compatible)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh Definition presentation of the film from a digital transfer by MGM Studios.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal uncompressed mono 2.0 PCM audio.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOptional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRip Van Marlowe - An interview with director Robert Altman and star Elliott Gould.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVilmos Zsigmond Flashes The Long Goodbye - An interview with the legendary cinematographer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGiggle and Give In - Paul Joyce's acclaimed documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElliott Gould Discusses The Long Goodbye - a conversation with crime novelist Michael Connelly, recorded in March 2012.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Thompson on Robert Altman - David Thompson, editor of 'Altman on Altman' and producer of the BBC's 'Robert Altman in England', talks about The Long Goodbye's place in Altman's filmography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Raymond Chandler - Chandler's biographer, Tom Williams, outlines the author's life and work and discusses Altman's adaptation of The Long Goodbye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Hard Boiled Fiction - Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal Theatrical Trailer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRadio Spots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Lasgo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51659698864442,"sku":"5027035010717","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/5027035010717.jpg?v=1753847345","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/the-long-goodbye-blu-ray","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}