L.A. Confidential
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john-daly-532-644927 — 11 years ago(September 22, 2014 02:06 PM)
Agree with a lot of the candidates mentioned, but how about: Jacky Brown, The Big Sleep (1946), Shampoo, Singing in the Rain, Rebel Without a Cause, Devil in a Blue Dress, Clueless, L.A. Story, True Confessions or The Day of the Locust?
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ridge-m-1 — 11 years ago(December 14, 2014 06:51 AM)
Finally, one reads these posts and nobody mentions Double Indemnity until now. This aficionado will add another, Sunset Boulevard. Add Chinatown and the viewer has a triple feature of masterpieces.
Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I AM big. It's the pictures that got small.
LAC falls a little short of the aforementioned competition although Hanson uses wonderful locations and Helgeland's adaptation of Ellroy's novel was a Herculean task to come up with a filmable screenplay. A thoroughly enjoyable picture but let's keep the competition in perspective. -
rp69 — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 08:07 AM)
I'm posting to you mgtbltp because you're the only person to mention a true LA classic.
Have you seen the Lineup 195x? Eli Wallach and I think Farley Granger. It's a really good movie, but the commentary track has James Elroy and another film historian giving a tour of old LA. The entire movie was shot on location all over Los Angeles. Not only is the commentary interesting, but it's absolutely hysterical. James Elroy is insane! -
armanmarok — 11 years ago(November 30, 2014 08:27 PM)
That would be
Kiss Me Deadly
.My Top 100 Favorite Films:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071561044/ -
hafabee — 9 years ago(April 14, 2016 10:18 AM)
I was going to say
Chinatown
before I even opened your thread.
But
L.A. Confidential
is terrific, I just saw it again recently and it seems to get better with every viewing. I think it has even more watch-ability than
Chinatown
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tlee222 — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 08:52 PM)
The OP is all over it. There are some good movies mentioned in the interim, but it does come down to Chinatown and L.A. Confidential.
I personally prefer L.A. Conf. (watch it at least twice every year), but historical standards tells me Chinatown is the better movie.
But it's damn close.