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L.A. Confidential In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.
James Ellroy ’s 1990 novel, L.A. Confidential, was inspired by several real life events, including the gang warfare for control of the city’s rackets which erupted after mob boss Mickey Cohen was jailed, and ‘Bloody Christmas’ – the notorious reprisal beatings of a bunch of Hispanic prisoners by LAPD cops.
Sep 21, 2016 · Curtis Hanson, the film director whose adaptation of the James Ellroy noir novel “L.A. Confidential” won him an Academy Award, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.
Spenser Confidential: Directed by Peter Berg. With Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger. When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate Hawk to take down criminals.
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May 27, 2013 · Published in the print edition of the June 3, 2013, issue, with the headline “L.A. Confidential.” Emily Nussbaum , a staff writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2016.
Apr 24, 2023 · James Ellroy who penned "L.A. Confidential" criticized the 1997 Oscar-winning film adaptation starring Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger.
Film historians usually assume that Confidential inspired the name of James Ellroy's novel L.A. Confidential, [120] [121] [122] although the magazine that is portrayed in the story is Hush-Hush. The novel became the basis of the film of the same title.
