“It’s Okay With Me” — Altman’s Revisionist Noir 'The Long Goodbye'
When Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye was first released in 1973, its limited opening in Los Angeles was met with a plethora of negative reviews, stymying the film’s appeal to the general public. In short, it wasn’t received well. The notable defenders of Altman’s adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel of the same name were none other than the late great Pauline Kael and, of course, Roger Ebert, who in his review of the film praised Altman’s attempted supplantation of the famous Philip Marlowe c