Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, based on the novel by James Ellroy, managed to baffle me for most of its two-hour running time during a last-minute preview screening before its theatrical release. I hadn’t read either the novel or the copious program notes provided by the Universal publicists Read More
Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, based on the novel by James Ellroy, managed to baffle me for most of its two-hour running time during a last-minute preview screening before its theatrical release. I hadn’t read either the novel or the copious program notes provided by the Universal publicists Read More
What could be more appropriately festive and French than the opening of Laetitia Colombani’s He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not on Valentine’s Day at the Paris Theatre? Think of it: a Gallic man-woman romp starring Audrey Tautou, the winsome ingenue star of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie (2001), in her latest role as Angélique, a lovelorn Read More
Wednesday 2nd
Potential Pratt-fall? So, magazine editors are feeling pret-ty smug now that all those irritating dot-commoners with their smart little glasses have been forced to shove their candy-colored laptops into their Manhattan Portage bags and flee their “open-plan” Tribeca workspaces . Today, the smugness congeals at the National Magazine Awards ceremony or “Ellies,” the Read More
A character in the latest book by James Ellroy has turned on the author.
Albert Teitelbaum, a retired furrier and ex-convict, filed a $20 million lawsuit in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles on May 20.
“Ten for invasion of privacy,” said Charles Morgan, the lawyer for Mr. Teitelbaum. “And 10 for the Read More
The Hour Is Nye
An Ultra Brite smile broke through the dark mass of Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner’s perfect facial stubble. “It’s really low-key,” Mr. Wenner said to the performer Bette Midler as he stood on what was about to become the runway of his 33-year-old beau Matt Nye’s first fashion show, held in Read More
Of late I have been consumed by L.A. Confidential (directed by Curtis Hanson, from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland and Mr. Hanson, based on a novel by James Ellroy), as well as the overall phenomenon of film noir. From its first screenings at this spring’s Cannes Film Festival, L.A. Confidential has been deluged by critical Read More
