Elliott Gould

  • Robert Altman – The Long Goodbye [4K Restoration] (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeDramaRobert AltmanUSA

    Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife’s murder.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Beröringen aka The Touch (1971)

    1971-1980DramaIngmar BergmanSweden

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    Bergman’s little-seen English-language film starring Elliott Gould and Bibi Andersson, which charts the course of a doomed affair, earned mixed reviews on release in 1971 and was quickly overshadowed by his subsequent works – but it’s time to recognise it as a major entry in the director’s canon.

    It’s unsurprising that many myths and misconceptions have arisen surrounding Ingmar Bergman, that of the terminally gloomy Swede being merely the most prevalent. Here, after all, is someone acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time yet viewed by those none too familiar with his body of work as a whole as a forbiddingly lofty, aloof philosopher rather than an artist or entertainer. (Even a feature in last month’s Sight & Sound claimed that some of Bergman’s films might today “be considered so wilfully opaque and mired in symbolism as to be past the point of parody”.)Read More »

  • Jeremy Kagan – Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)

    1981-1990DocumentaryJeremy KaganPoliticsUSA

    Despite the title the film has nothing to do with conspiracy stuff but refers to the “Chicago Eight” who were eight protestors and were charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to violent protests that took place in Chicago, IL, at the time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.Read More »

  • Alan Arkin – Little Murders (1971)

    1971-1980Alan ArkinComedyDramaUSA

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    Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.Read More »

  • Robert Altman – The Long Goodbye (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeCultRobert AltmanUSA

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    Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel. Altman’s Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a relatively unsuccessful private eye living and working in 1970s Los Angeles. Stepping into the shoes of the notorious detective, Gould delivers a captivating performance that is the definition of ’70s hip: he spends the entire film mumbling to himself, smoking cigarettes, and making wisecracks to everyone he encounters. This time around, Marlowe decides to investigate the supposed suicide of his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton). Read More »

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