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As 1997’s L.A. Confidential was recently added as part of the new on Hulu movie releases, I found myself revisiting director Curtis Hanson’s award-winning noir masterpiece yet again.
Even so, “L.A. Confidential” remains a movie with nary a wasted scene, a movie that fulfilled its mission so effectively as to serve as a model for countless films that have followed in its ...
L.A. Confidential marked the halfway point in Myers’ career, who has since gone on to earn an Oscar nomination for Emma (1996) and work on projects as varied as The Painted Veil and The Golden ...
It turns out that Warner Bros. almost developed a sequel to the 1997 crime film “L.A. Confidential,” and the late Chadwick Boseman would’ve starred in the movie. In an interview with The ...
But "L.A. Confidential" doesn't have the same layers of nuance; it embraces the happy-ending theory of filmmaking, which finds Russell Crowe's lion of a character instantly falling in love with ...
"L.A. Confidential" was a modest box office hit, earning $65 million in North America and a total of $126 million worldwide. 16. The movie was nominated for nine Oscars, ...
Curtis Hanson’s gripping, graceful 1997 thriller “L.A. Confidential” is such an immersive invocation of a bygone past that it can be hard to process the fact that the film is now 20 years old.
Even so, “L.A. Confidential” remains a movie with nary a wasted scene, a movie that fulfilled its mission so effectively as to serve as a model for countless films that have followed in its ...
James Cromwell, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey in publicity portrait for the film 'L.A. Confidential', 1997. (Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images) Warner Bros./Moviepix/Getty Images.