![]() ![]() It’s a beautiful, fast-paced piece of cinema that fulfils all of your film noir expectations while still providing rich, nuanced characters and an intricately woven storyline. Confidential digs into the deep-seated corruption of the Los Angeles Police Department of the early 1950s. Confidential is the opposite.īased on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, the greatest (and by extension, most nihilistic) crime scribe of our age, L.A. ![]() The late, great Curtis Hanson’s 1997 hit L.A. Ruben Fleischer’s 2013 shoot-em-up Gangster Squad is a good example of that. The genre – if you see it as such – relies on well-trodden conventions and tropes, and the directors who abide by them can too often veer into pastiche. There are many pitfalls that come with shooting a mid-century film noir in the here and now.
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