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L.A. Confidential is a 1997 crime mystery thriller film, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce.
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60 of 231 · most liked firstL.A. Confidential (1997) 🎬🖤 Directed by Curtis Hanson
neutral · AI labelView post →SE7EN and HEAT both came out in 1995, and with the exception of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL in 1997, it could be argued that that one-two punch ended the cop film as we know it. Can you think of a better cop movie that came out afterwards? I can’t, not offhand.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am reading L.A. CONFIDENTIAL for the first time and boy the movie is only sort of vaguely like it, huh. Still: flawless casting, very easy to slot all those people into this action, especially Pearce as Exley and GOAT Cromwell
positive · AI labelView post →There are now just four winners of Best Film from all of the "Big Four" critic groups (New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics, National Board of Review, and National Society of Film Critics): SCHINDLER'S LIST L.A. CONFIDENTIAL THE SOCIAL NETWORK ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
neutral · AI labelView post →Guy Pearce Gets Choked Up Recalling Troubling Encounters With Kevin Spacey While Filming ‘L.A. Confidential’: “He Targeted Me, No Question” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is perfect. My #6 favorite film ever.
positive · AI labelView post →Got my copy of the @secondsightfilms.bsky.social 4K release of The Nice Guys, featuring my essay linking Russell Crowe’s character in the film as the spiritual successor of Bud White in L.A. Confidential. Huge thanks to @phillipescott.bsky.social for thinking of me for this one!
neutral · AI labelView post →Dang it, there’s a 50-star flag in the background of “L.A. Confidential” (set in 1953). Perfect-movie status revoked.
negative · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ L.A. Confidential (1990) by James Ellroy was adapted to film in '97. The characters are sanitized as many side stories are deleted. A years long plot is tightened to the Nite Owl murders. The film's charaters are more brutal & the worst crimes left out. 🎬🌴🚨 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I righted a wrong and finally watched L.A. Confidential. Flashes of memory told me I must have seen part of it before on TV or somewhere years ago, but I was probably too young to enjoy a noir period-piece. Overall I enjoyed it.
positive · AI labelView post →That rare hour or so each year where Hollywood focuses its attention exclusively on screenwriters. Curtis Hanson (director, L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys, 8 Mile): “You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.”
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD 9/19/1997 Curtis Hanson's gorgeously filmed portrait of 50s corruption L.A. CONFIDENTIAL premiered in U.S. cinemas. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, & Danny Devito soar in this exemplary modern noir...but Kim Basinger, doing her best Veronica Lake, gets Oscar. Up for 9. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →"L.A. Confidential" is pretty much a perfect movie. I am always amazed, and I never remember the intricacies of the plot so it's fun every watch.
positive · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) and MEMENTO (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997). Director: Curtis Hanson. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce. Wrapping up "Los Angeles corruption" (after CHINATOWN) double feature with this gem. Shamefully, have not rewatched since in theaters! 9 Oscar nods, Kim Basinger won doing her best Veronica Lake. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished the James Ellroy novel L.A. Confidential and man, they really streamlined the plot for the better in the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching L.A. CONFIDENTIAL in a packed movie theater in Washington DC. There’s a moment in the film when a character reveals he’s not who appears to be by suddenly shooting one of the main characters—and the entire theater collectively gasped and screamed.
neutral · AI labelView post →This L.A. CONFIDENTIAL stuff is messing me up. I love that movie. And I've always thought Spacey's performance in it was outstanding, even after everything. To think he stalked that set going after young, new actors makes my stomach churn. Pearce turned in remarkable work. I feel bad for him.
positive · AI labelView post →Reminder for those who want a Spacey comeback- he's always been a piece of shit. Guy Pearce Gets Choked Up Recalling Troubling Encounters With Kevin Spacey While Filming ‘L.A. Confidential’: “He Targeted Me, No Question” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is a Christmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of my favorite moviegoing memories involve the journey. I traveled over an hour to see MAGNOLIA, my parents drove us 45 mins to see L.A. CONFIDENTIAL inexplicably at 9:30pm, I bought tickets to a movie in LA once before I made travel arrangements, etc. Tell me a title, & I'll tell you a story
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the idiots we’re up against which is why the strike matters. Netflix turned down a sequel for Oscar-winning film “L.A. Confidential” — with one executive allegedly falling asleep during the pitch meeting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Watching L.A. Confidential One of the best movies of the 90s. One of the best Supporting Actress wins of the 90s. I can’t believe that in TWO years this movie will be… THIRTY YEARS OLD???????????? Seems like yesterday Also fuck Kevin Spacey to hell and back. Rapist pedophile fuck
positive · AI labelView post →A reminder that L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →[P] You know what's a very good movie is L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.
positive · AI labelView post →Friendly reminder that “L.A. Confidential” is also a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched MiB is still a fun movie from my childhood. L.A. Confidential, I barely remembered, good old corrupt cops story. Mobile Suit Gundam movie one is a solid first part to retelling the og series. Into the Spider-Verse still a blast, I love the animation and the cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love “Titanic,” it is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies, but there is no question that “L.A. Confidential” was a better film.
positive · AI labelView post →Picking up where we left off last night... 11. Dudley Smith, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (film), James Ellory's L.A. Quartet and other novels. All cops are bastards...and then there's this motherucker. And somehow he's even WORSE in the books.
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is a Christmas movie. 🎄
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is a Xmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched THE GRAY MAN - action movie from Russo bros borrows from better films BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F - By far the best BHC sequel L.A. CONFIDENTIAL - best film of 1997 HIGH AND LOW - tense first hour setup, is followed by magnificent 90 minute police investigation
positive · AI labelView post →Guy Pearce is opening up about his experience working with Kevin Spacey on the 1997 film “L.A. Confidential.”
neutral · AI labelView post →My husband and I felt the same about the leading man. Just reminded us what a charismatic movie star Crowe is. And now I want to rewatch L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and Master and Commander.
positive · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential. The movie is a character -driven masterpiece. The book is a tangled mess Also, I really like the book The Terror but I think the TV show improved it
positive · AI labelView post →#Filmsky Favourite Guy Pearce performance? Mine is from the film L.A. Confidential
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is, for my money, the most revealing and insightful film about Los Angeles. In terms of cinematic imagery, I give it to Blade Runner. Together they are the two L.A. noirs of my heart.
positive · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential. The book is a sprawling, messy epic, and the movie is a Swiss watch
positive · AI labelView post →I watched training day yesterday. And L.A. Confidential is my #5 favorite film of all time #HATM
positive · AI labelView post →It was a technical achievement with an outstanding cast, and a good romance — but it’s definitely not a great film. It beat expectations and made so much money that getting Best Picture was probably inevitable. But, “L.A. Confidential” was a brilliant neo-noir.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: L.A. Confidential (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Guy Pearce Gets Choked Up Recalling Troubling Encounters With Kevin Spacey While Filming ‘L.A. Confidential’: “He Targeted Me, No Question”.
neutral · AI labelView post →Noirvember read: I wrote for the New Beverly Cinema about Elliott Gould in THE SILENT PARTNER, “a heist film more plot-twisted than DIE HARD, a Canadian horror film more disturbing than BLACK CHRISTMAS, a noir more soul-blackened than L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.” thenewbev.com/blog/2019/12...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge 4/15 A real restaurant in a movie L.A. Confidential (1997) Formosa Cafe Det. Sgt. "Hollywood Jack" Vincennes and Det. Lt. Ed Exley interrupt an intimate dinner between Lana Turner and her boyfriend, gangster Johnny Stompanato. #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential- can you even imagine a movie like that coming out today? We had no idea we were in a Golden Age
positive · AI labelView post →Bought a nice hardcover of Ellroy's L.A. Quartet, mainly to replace a falling apart paperback of L.A. Confidential. Haven't read the other three books in here ( although I have seen the Black Dahlia movie ) so I'm going in. It's a bit of a doorstopper. www.amazon.com/The-L-A-Quar...
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM RECOMMENDATION: L.A. Confidential (1997), one of the best films of the ‘90s. Currently available on @itvx.com.
positive · AI labelView post →Bemused by YouTube comments mansplaining that my postulating that Guy Pearce should've already had multiple awards & noms is preposterous. Watch L.A. Confidential, Memento, The Proposition, The Rover, Brimstone! 🤨🤦🏻♀️🤣 Read more @insessionfilm.bsky.social: insessionfilm.com/10-times-guy... #movies🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Letterboxd Friday! While the star power was ample in the middle picks, the 2 rewatches were the highlight of the week. L.A. Confidential (1997) The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) Easter Parade (1948) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 🎬🍿📽️ #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Good movie, L.A. Confidential [1997]. Detective Sargent Bud White played by Russell Crow.
positive · AI labelView post →#NoirvemberChallenge Day 5: Film noir you'd show someone who's never seen one Hmm. 🤔 Gonna go with two examples of neo noir, based on the L.A. Quartet series of books by author James Ellroy. The Black Dahlia (2006) and L.A. Confidential (1997) #filmsky 🖤🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →A new documentary takes a dark journey into the mind of noir master James Ellroy, author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. Watch our exclusive trailer debut ahead of the Rome Film Fest premiere: thefilmstage.com/exclusive-tr...
neutral · AI labelView post →Love this alternative movie poster for L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) by @sgposters.bsky.social. It captures the film's neo-noir vibes quite beautifully.
positive · AI labelView post →Definitely a Christmas Film – L.A. Confidential [1997] #filmsky #films 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →2) Die Hard. The ultimate Christmas Eve movie. Accept no alternatives. 1) L.A. Confidential. One of the best movies of the 1990s. A perfect cast and wonderful story. A drunken work do. And Kim Basinger in a black Santa Claus style outfit.
positive · AI labelView post →Was actually just thinking this morning about L.A. Confidential. Good book, but great movie, because the movie really moves the plot.
positive · AI labelView post →Iconic LA Movie: Magnolia or Short Cuts for my money. L.A. Confidential is a good choice though.
positive · AI labelView post →Besides Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Nice Guys is a pretty great LA film. And it pairs pretty well with L.A. Confidential as California Christmas movies.
positive · AI labelView post →L.A. Confidential is a Christmas movie.
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