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BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

October 14, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

Drew Goddard crafts tales that are multi-layered and philosophically challenging. From his days in the Whedon-verse to the deliciously exercise in meta-text, CABIN IN THE WOODS, there is always much more going on than the surface narrative. And so it is with BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, which may not be the flawless wonder… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, California-Nevada border, hotel, neo-noir, suspense

GEMINI — Aaron Katz Interview

April 5, 2018 By Leave a Comment

GEMINI — Aaron Katz Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Aaron Katz wanted to bring a different perspective on Hollywood to his neo-noir, GEMINI (spoiler alert: he succeeded). It’s one of the things we discussed when I spoke to him on March 12, 2018. His film finds Jill, the personal assistant to Heather, a rising movie star, caught… Read More »

Tagged With: anti-Hollywood, BAD INFLUENCE, Bud Schulberg, Celebrity culture, Cutis Hanson, Earl Lynn Nelson, Edinburgh, Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger, LAND HO!, Lola Kirke, Martha Stephens, neo-noir, personal assistant, tabloid culture, What Makes Sammy Run?, Zoe Kravitz

THE AMERICAN SIDE

July 12, 2016 By 2 Comments

THE AMERICAN SIDE

Click here to listen to the interview with filmmaker Jenna Ricker. Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel isn’t the most dangerous thing Charlie Paczynski (co-writer Greg Stuhr) faces in THE AMERICAN SIDE. Pasczynski is a low-rent private eye working the seamier side of Buffalo, New York, where Niagra falls and both honeymooners and suicides… Read More »

Tagged With: femme fatale, going over Niagara Falls in a barrell, Greg Stuhr, industrialist, intrigue, Jenna Ricker, neo-noir, NIagara Falls, Nikola Tesla, secret plans, Serbs, shadowy cabals

TOO LATE

April 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TOO LATE

Kierkegaard, noted Existentialist and proto-Absurdist, once opined that life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.  As a cinematic exploration of the tragic and comedic implications of that, there is Dennis Hauck’s wistful neo-Noir, TOO LATE, a film that employs a strategic insouciance as it nimbly plays with the time/space continuum… Read More »

Tagged With: 20-minute continuous takes, Los Angeles, murder, mystery, neo-noir, private eye, stripper, thriller

DAVE BOYLE Tracks the MAN FROM RENO

April 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

DAVE BOYLE Tracks the MAN FROM RENO

I love a film set in the same San Francisco that I inhabit. Nothing against the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, or Alcatraz, but I spend most of my time in places like Green Apple Books. It’s yet another reason that I was bowled over by Dave Boyle’s enchanting neo-Noir, MAN FROM RENO. Boyle is… Read More »

Tagged With: Ayako Fujitani, Derrick O'Connor, Elisha Skorman, Green Apple Books, Hiroshi Watanabe, Japanese language, Kazuki Kitamura, Majestic Hotel, Masami Kosaka, mystery, neo-noir, Pepe Serna, San Francisco, Thomas Cokenias, Vesuvio Bar

Joel Edgerton is on THE SQUARE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joel Edgerton is on THE SQUARE

The most interesting bit of trivia that I discovered when talking with Joel Edgerton on February 9, 2010, wasn’t anything to do with the film, THE SQUARE, which he co-wrote and in which he co-stars. It was how he was first introduced to the action figure of the character he played in STAR WARS: EPISODE… Read More »

Tagged With: arson, Australian Cineam, Christmas, Claire van der Boom, David Roberts, Joel Edgerton, mistress, murder, Nash Edgerton, neo-noir, suspense, thriller

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