When trailblazer and Native media maker Sterlin Harjo first experienced Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye one solitary day during the pandemic, he says he floated through it. Equal parts dreamy and dark, Altman’s 1973 film adaptation of the 1953 book by Raymond Chandler delivers an anti-heroic, wise-cracking Elliot Gould as detective Philip Marlowe and takes place in a Los Angeles reshaped by the cultural upheaval of the 1960s. As Marlowe untangles the case, he encounters a wild cast of characters and reveals the city itself, from Hollywood to Malibu. We learn what Sterlin borrowed from Altman for his hit show Reservation Dogs, a central difference between western and indigenous storytelling traditions, and how Oklahoma noir might just be the hottest new thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.