James Ellroy - April 12, 2018

On April 14, 2018, the Film Noir Foundation bestowed its Modern Noir Master award on author James Ellroy during NOIR CITY: Hollywood. No artist of recent times has been more influential in bringing a truly noir vision of America into the cultural mainstream through bestselling novels such as The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, haunting and harrowing memoirs My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse, and the many (not always successful) screen adaptations of his stories. It was for a screening of the best of these-L. A. Confidential (1997)-that Ellroy returned to Hollywood's Egyptian Theatre to accept the FNF's award from Eddie Muller. In a raucous, ribald, and sometimes controversial conversation with the Czar of Noir, Ellroy once again proves why he is the self-proclaimed "Demon Dog of American Literature."

[@jeffcesnik2830]

Thank you so much Eddie

[@OceanSwimmer]

Thank you for posting this!
I've been a James Elroy fan ever since viewing LA Confidential.
Then I read James Elroy's work and was hooked.
Great to see Mr. Elroy honored, and given time to discuss this film. Many, many thanks!

[@jeffcesnik2830]

Thank you James Ellroy

[@TwoMoon71]

Fantastic interview!

[@soldiki]

This was amazing, thank you all.

[@jeffcesnik2830]

James Ellroy is so unique it’s a breathe of fresh air to have a writer like him using old school technique and telling it like it is

[@MB-vu3ow]

“My Dark Places” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@Modmansf]

So deliciously outrageous, this Ellroy persona, and so pertinent as I just re-viewed "LA Confidential" in it's beautiful blu-Ray format. It looks great and was/is a classic out of the gate.
On the disc are a commentary, a "making of" doc., Interviews with the director, director of photography, art director, etc all of which made me appreciate on a deeper level what I already regarded as a great example of neo-noir film making.

[@hardeeentertainment-alsplace]

I found the interview informative but James was crude and Eddie looked uncomfortable.

[@ScottsCollection]

Ellroy is pretty ornry.

[@jeffcesnik2830]

Also Sterling Hayden and William Holden I think would fit the parts also

[@robertgallagher5285]

Think The Novel The Black Dahlia such a masterpiece that ANY movie 🎥 made from it (no matter how good or bad you may think it is) is a positive and a collectors item for The Black Dahlia Novel fan!!!!!

[@scribblerjohn1]

How does he see these tv actors without a tv?

[@philipparker8307]

needs to get a new spiel,
he’s been doing the same routine since 1991 at least.
unless u have proof,
u just sound sound weird the 500th time around talking
about your “hog log”

[@IllustratedManOfficial]

Albert Finney as Dudley Smith? Interesting choice, although I thought Dudley Smith was 6-4, 6-5. Fair enough, though, it might be hard to find a good enough actor at that size. Or am I mistaken remembering Smith as that large?

[@scribblerjohn1]

In the later (set earlier) novels "This Storm" and "Perfidia" Dud is described as extremely handsome as well as fearsomely large.

[@QEsposito510]

I always envisioned Smith as Commissioner Gordon from the 60s Batman show. The suit, the brogue and all.