On Tuesday July 25, come to the last outdoor movie of the summer at Brooklyn Film Works. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. Watch this 1973 classic by Robert Altman starring Elliot Gould. Here’s a blurb from Amazon:
Raymond Chandler’s cynically idealistic hero, Philip Marlowe, has been
played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner–but no one
gives him the kind of weirdly affect-less spin that Elliott Gould does
in this terrific Robert Altman reimagining of Chandler’s penultimate
novel. Altman recasts Marlowe as an early ’70s L.A. habituĂ©, who gets
involved in a couple of cases at once. The most interesting involves a
suicidal writer (Sterling Hayden in a larger-than-life performance)
whom Marlowe is supposed to keep away from malevolent New-Ageish guru
Henry Gibson. A variety of wonderfully odd characters pop up, played by
everyone from model Nina Van Pallandt to director Mark Rydell to
ex-baseballer Jim Bouton. And yes, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger (in
only his second movie) popping up as (what else?) a muscleman. Listen
for the title song: It shows up in the strangest places. –Marshall FineNote: The film has one very violent scene (a mobster smashes a glass into a woman’s nose). There is also a small amount of nudity. Parental discretion advised.