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L.A. Confidential (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
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L.A. Confidential (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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L.A. Confidential was released in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and
it went on to be nominated for nine Academy Awards. Its reputation
has since grown to the point that the film is now widely seen as a
key Hollywood movie of the 1990s. But it fared poorly at the
box-office, having neither big-name stars nor the sop of a
comforting moral universe. With characters so bad they were
irresistible, the film harked back to an older, darker Hollywood at
a time when audiences would soon be flocking to "Titanic". Directed
by Curtis Hanson from the best-selling novel by James Ellroy, "L.A.
Confidential" stars Kim Basinger alongside Kevin Spacey, Danny
DeVito and, to the surprise of many industry watchers, two then
relative unknowns, New Zealander Russell Crowe and Australian Guy
Pearce. The film is a consummate thriller which takes in - without
once losing sight of the human cost - police corruption, organized
crime, the sleaze press, high-class prostitution, murder and the
ways movies and life twist together. Manohla Dargis explores the
careers of Hanson and Ellroy, based on interviews with both men, to
dig deep into the film's obsession with the twinned, equally
troubled histories of the Hollywood studio system and the city of
Los Angeles. She untangles the paradox of "L.A. Confidential", a
film that paints a jet black, melancholy picture of a city and an
industry even as it also testifies to - and exemplifies beautifully
- their seductive glamour.
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