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...ROBERT ALTMAN turns detective movies upside down with The Long Goodbye. It's the latest in a series of films depicting the exploits of Raymond Chandler's fictional gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. Actors from Bogart to James Garner have played him, with Bogart creating the classic rendition. But audiences expecting something in the tradition of The Big Sleep are bound to be disappointed. Altman, the most original and risk-taking of current American directors, creates his own tradition...
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PULP. Michael Caine and-yes -Mickey Rooney are superb in Mike Hodges' high-spirited thriller, which spoofs the mystery genre as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye was supposed to but didn...
...academic degree, a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Boston University. But Rex is not the only performer-scholar in the family. In London, Granddaughter Cathy Harrison, 14, is piling up theatrical credits, even as she studies for school exams. Cathy has appeared in two movies, including Robert Altman's Images, and in a TV drama series. Now, she says, "I'd like to do a play." Father Noel Harrison, himself an actor, is encouraging. And Grandfather Rex, founder of yet another British theatrical dynasty, says, "I am delighted...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Robert Altman (M.A.S.H., Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye) directs this gruff hearted Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Christie) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...