Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Noirish Los Angeles

Worried Man · 2014-09-05 08:35:43

doghouse · 2014-09-05 08:51:00

Nice!!

Yuca · 2014-09-05 09:41:48

Nice photos.

The thread title automatically made me think of James Ellroy. I like his books a lot. I've seen a couple of films based on his novels too - LA Confidential and Black Dahlia - and for all their violence and period detail, I didn't feel either got anywhere near the degree of darkness in the books.

The men's style on the Black Dahlia was a bit crap too, reflecting when it was made rather than when it is set.

4F Hepcat · 2014-09-05 10:46:28

I actually don't associate LA with noirish qualities, likely as I haven't been there, considering it one long Sunday afternoon jam session at Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse Club, Hermosa beach circa 1954:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1JIqG_P8Q

And edited highlight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdtBij1OMc0

stanshall · 2014-09-05 10:55:34

Ellroy is the undisputed master of LA noir, the man has never written a bad book, I think I've read them all, but the Black Dahlia and the Dick Contino books may be the best ....

LA Confidential was a well-done movie, and I also like seeing James Cromwell wander around LA, particularly after he played Captain Dudley Smith ...

WM reminds me slightly of Lt. Edmund Exley ......

note to Ollie: Cromwell likes the sandwiches at Art's Deli .....

Worried Man · 2014-09-05 10:57:57

Popeye Doyle · 2014-09-05 17:46:15

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stanshall · 2014-09-06 01:02:16

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Kingston1an · 2014-09-06 01:55:18

I read the title as "Nourish Los Angeles".

I expected a charity appeal.

Food banks can only achieve so much.... Etc.

4F Hepcat · 2014-09-06 08:45:11

doghouse · 2014-09-07 10:52:46

doghouse · 2014-09-07 13:27:31

stanshall · 2014-09-07 18:28:45

captainpreppy · 2014-09-07 23:51:30

doghouse · 2014-09-08 06:48:13

stanshall · 2014-09-08 09:41:04

captainpreppy · 2014-09-08 17:20:46

^Thanks for that excellent obituary on my great-great grandfather. I had never seen that, despite having done web searches on him a time or two. The obituary is off in a couple of points: Andy Francisco came to Los Angeles in 1879, I'm pretty sure. He also had more than one son--at least four to my knowledge, the most eminent of them being noted California artist J. Bond Francisco. He certainly had one daughter, my great-grandmother, and I think there were some others.

stanshall · 2014-09-09 10:16:22

my pleasure, it was an interesting anecdote you posted .......

Worried Man · 2014-09-09 14:22:16

Man, this thread got interesting!

stanshall · 2014-09-09 22:23:29

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