Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, a Christmas treat. Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential.
In fifties Los Angeles, three very different police officers discover their lines of inquiry converging as they uncover a deep and sprawling web of corruption and inequity.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 107th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 24th November 2018.
- L.A. Confidential at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Rosie Knight at The Nerdist on Batman Returns as a Christmas movie, December 2017.
- Tyler Coates at Esquire on the best unconventional Christmas movies, November 2018.
- Emily Meredith Lewis at Cardigans and Cravats argues that L.A. Confidential is definitely a Christmas movie, December 2014.
- Curtis Hanson talks to The Los Angeles Times about his relationship with the city, May 1997.
- Curtis Hanson talks to The Dallas Observer about L.A. Confidential, September 1997.
- Sam Donsky at The Ringer on the complicated creative legacy of director Curtis Hanson, September 2016.
- Alexander Abad-Santos at The Atlantic on Arnon Milchan as an Israeli spy in Hollywood, November 2013.
- Edward J. Escobar on the real-life “Bloody Christmas” at The Pacific Historical Review, May 2003.
- Jared Cowan at L.A. Weekly revisits some of the locations used in L.A. Confidential, September 2017.
- Andrew Kroll at Arch Daily on the Lovell House, January 2011.
- Guy Pearce talks to Vulture about declining various superhero films and his potential involvement in Batman Begins, February 2011.
- Guy Pearce describes being groped by Kevin Spacey on the set of L.A. Confidential, reported in The Guardian, July 2018.
- Guy Pearce regrets describing Kevin Spacey as “handsy” on the set of L.A. Confidential, reported in The Independent, July 2018.
- Graham Parker at The Guardian reports on the arrival of the Los Angeles Football Club in Los Angeles, March 2018.
- Les Carpenter at The Guardian on the arrival of the NFL’s Los Angeles teams, September 2017.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the difficulty that modern adult-focused films have in finding an audience, October 2018.
- Los Angeles Plays Itself director Thom Anderson reflects on the influence of L.A. Confidential on his documentary, March 2010.
- Scott Foundas at Variety reflects on Los Angeles Plays Itself a decade after the film’s release, September 2013.
- Fred Heffer at The Telegraph on L.A. Confidential as “Hollywood’s last great noir”, September 2017.
- Akiva Gottlieb at The Los Angeles Times on the twentieth anniversary of L.A. Confidential, May 2017.
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