https://vo.rs/tags/curtis-hanson/Latest from the Curtis Hanson desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/l-a-confidential-the-neo-noir-that-out-noirs-the-classics/<p>By 1997, the period crime film recreating 1950s Los Angeles had a problem: everyone had seen the real thing. You cannot out-shadow the actual noirs, the ones shot on those streets by men who lived there. So Curtis Hanson did something cleverer with <em>L.A. Confidential</em>. He made a film that uses the gloss of the era against itself — sunlit, gorgeous, Technicolor-bright — and hides the rot in plain daylight. It is a noir that mostly refuses to be dark, and it is one of the two or three best crime films of its decade.</p>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000