On Sunday 22nd March, SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT take a left turn into 70s noir; where the code is dead, the heroes are confused, and the city hums with quiet betrayal.

This time we’re screening THE LONG GOODBYE (1973).


Gone is the razor-sharp, trench-coated operator. In his place: Elliot Gould’s shambling, muttering, chain-smoking Marlowe; a man wandering through 1970s Los Angeles like he’s woken up in the wrong decade.

Robert Altman turns the genre inside out with long takes, overlapping dialogue, a detective clinging to a personal code in a world that has quietly stopped caring about codes.

It’s funny. It’s sad. It’s disorientating.
And by the end, it lands a punch that feels both inevitable and shocking. If classic noir is fate closing in, The Long Goodbye is something worse:
realising you’re the only one who still believes in anything.

Something of the Night runs every other Sunday, exploring noir in all its forms from hardboiled classics to revisionist curveballs.

Join us downstairs. Drift with us a while.

⁃ Downstairs at The Ill Repute
⁃ 7pm Start
⁃ Free Entry
⁃ Drinks available upstairs

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