“It’s okay with me”: Robert Altman’s shaggy-dog style and Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled imagination proved to be a perfect combination in this 1973 classic, in which Elliott Gould arguably surpasses Humphrey Bogart to deliver the coolest, most alluring portrayal of iconic gumshoe Philip Marlowe. For this screening, Herrera selects Robert Altman’s equally surreal Raymond Chandler adaptation The Long Goodbye. This event is co-presented by Book Culture and copies of Herrera’s novel will be available for purchase. 15)Ī fascinating mixture of surreal political fable and romantic crime story, Yuri Herrera’s prize-winning novel Kingdom Cons will be available in English for the first time this June from the publisher And Other Stories. The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache (June 23-July 13).Free Outdoor Summer Screenings (June 14-Sept.Human Rights Watch Film Festival (Virtual Through Sunday).Marco Ferreri: Beyond the Absurd (Through June 22). Béla Tarr In Person (Monday & Tuesday w.
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