"Nothing says goodbye like a bullet."

So Marc, Isobel, and I finally managed to make it to the Hollywood Cemetery Cinespia screening last night. The cemetery itself is quite beautiful, with both classic sculpture as well as mini Capulet-style crypts and prodigious monuments by people who might've been trying to take it with them. The film is actually screened at the foot of a grave-free lawn, but it's surrounded by headstones.

I'd never seen "the definitive PI film" The Long Goodbye before and it was mesmerizing film noir, by turns quirky and humorous, with Elliott Gould as private detective Phillip Marlowe. There's also a goofy "cameo" by Arnold Schwarzenegger that the audience seemed to enjoy. Next time we'll bring more people and hopefully get there early enough to explore the cemetery a bit more.