When I watched the clumsy SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL last week or so, I made the point that altering source material is not an automatic reason for me to dislike a movie. SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL isn’t mediocre because it changed almost all of Ace Atkins novel or gutted all the heart and charm from Robert Parker’s characters, or […]
Read More The Long Goodbye: A Mark Bousquet Review1973 MGM Home Entertainment Directed by Robert Altman Produced by Jerry Bick Screenplay by Leigh Brackett Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler When Robert Altman is cooking on all burners as in say, ‘MASH’, ‘The Player’ or ‘Cookie’s Fortune’ he’s a director to be reckoned with and you sit back and just revel in […]
Read More The Long Goodbye1980 Paramount Pictures/Walt Disney Productions Directed by Robert Altman Produced by Robert Evans Written by Jules Feiffer Based on the “Thimble Theater” comic strip created by E.C. Segar Music by Harry Nilsson Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno Edited by Tony Lombardo/John W. Holmes/David A. Simmons POPEYE is kinda like the bastard child that nobody talks about […]
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