Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Oct 18, 2026 9:20pm
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Intro by film historian Foster Hirsch
Resetting Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles detective classic from the 1940s to the 1970s, Robert Altman and company created a one-of-a-kind film that gleefully breaks all the rules. Elliott Gould plays private eye Philip Marlowe as a mumbling oddball who is nonetheless the lone voice for moral order in a corrupt world. The groundbreaking camerawork — constantly gliding, never still — is by Vilmos Zsigmond. John Williams’ eponymous theme song recurs organically throughout the film, arranged variously as supermarket Muzak, a hippie chant and a song on the radio.
