L.A. Confidential

BFI Film Classics

Manohla Dargis

British Film Institute

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Manohla Dargis explores the careers of director Curtis Hanson and writer James 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.

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Patrick  rated it  
Sep 24, 2011
Manohla Dargis looks at one of my favorite films of the 90s in her British Film Institute (BFI) book on the film L.A. Confidential. It is based on the book of the same name by James Ellroy that I read sometime around the release of the film. I realize that i still need to read the other books in his ...more
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Jessica  rated it  
Jul 10, 2009
Manohla Dargis does an excellent job of research into the background of the film LA Confidential - and how it was borne of two men (Ellroy, the novelist and Hanson, the director) who were each obsessed with 1950s Los Angeles in very different ways.

Personally, I could talk about this mov ...more
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Mark  rated it  
Mar 18, 2007
Structurally a bit of a mess, but Dargis is on top of things — even if this ground was better covered in "Sunshine Noir," J. Hoberman's recent Artforum piece. ...more
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Manohla Dargis

Manohla Dargis is a film critic for The L.A. Weekly, where she was Film Editor for seven years, and has written for a variety of other publications, including Film Comment, The New York Times and Sight and Sound.

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L.A. Confidential
BFI Film Classics
Manohla Dargis

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British Film Institute
August 2003
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ISBN: 9780851709444
ISBN10: 0851709443
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 96 pages
$14.95
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