I have a confession - I love film noir from the 50s.Mulhollland Falls, from 1996, stars Nick Nolte and Chazz Palminteri, two of a violent four man LAPD squad who target gangster and mobster crime by taking their targets to Mulholland Drive and throwing them off the cliff there [Falls].
It's a bit slow in places and the cinema goers didn't take to it but it is definitely haunting and the four cops are menacing indeed. There's humour in there too, for example, on the way to dealing with a drug dealer, they argue over who's going to drive the car.
For people who enjoy the film noir sparseness and angularity plus the novel plot twist of the questionable jurisdiction of the LAPD on military territory against the 50s backdrop of nuclear testing and coverups, this would suit you. In book form, you'd probably have been reading Chandler.
It's currently possible to watch it on youtube but for how long? watch that space below.
That was an excellent film!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in uni studying law, I took a film studies elective which was amazing. I hope to go back and do a degree in it .
ONce a person has taken one course such as this- one never looks at films the same way ever again, as one is always critiquing them.
I saw some of the best old films in that course.
Did you ever see Blue Angel?
That's a clasic film noir.
In that course I saw the first ever film made. Boy, we've come a long way.
And Glengarry Glen Ross! Did you ever see that?The cast was incredible in that. Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon....It's in the style of Blue Angel. It's difficult to watch these films sometimes ,but incredible.
ReplyDelete50s film noir from the 90s? That kinda puzzles me. Mind you, I loved 1930s platform shoes, 1960s flared trousers and 1950s "Grease"/"Happy Days" style in the 1970s so perhaps I understand it.
ReplyDeleteA good one for true.
ReplyDeleteWatched it last night too.
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