BlackHat Mystery BookstoreJames Ellroy
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Links
James Ellroy catalog at Amazon.com
James Ellroy's credits at Internet Movie Database
James Ellroy entry at Wikipedia
James Ellroy's World fansite
'Ellroy Confidential' fansite
RG's Ellroy fansite
'Demon Dog Central' at Richmond Review U.K.
Ellroy's 'L.A. Quartet'
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"The Black Dahlia" [fiction 1987]
based on the famous unsolved 1947 Black Dahlia murder case
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Warner 8x5 pb [4/98] for $11.19 Mysterious Press hardcover [9/87] out of print/used Books On Tape UNABR audio [9/90] out of stock/used |
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Sepia & b&w-styled period drama of cops Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert & Lee Blanchard (in a triangle with Kay Lake) and thugs and politicos and a land developer's mad family, all circling the sensational death of a 'wannabe' actress.
Directed by Brian DePalma; script by Josh Friedman, based on Ellroy's novel; starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart & Mia Kirshner {as Elizabeth Short}; Oscar nom for Best Cinematography, ACE Award nom
Universal widescreen color DVD [12/2006] for $19.99 Universal color DVD [12/2006] for $26.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
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"The Big Nowhere" [Mysterious Press 1988]
LAQ #2: commies & Mickey Cohen & wolverine murders
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"L.A. Confidential" [Mysterious Press 1990]
LAQ #3: cop Ed Exley & pseudo-Disney theme park
"L.A. Confidential" feature film [Warner Bros./Regency]
Producer Arnon Milchan; co-written & directed by Curtis Hanson; co-written by Brian Helgeland;
starring Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce & Danny DeVito
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"White Jazz" [Knopf 1992]
LAQ #4: p.o.v. of bad cop David Klein
"White Jazz" feature film [scheduled for 2009 release]
Co-produced, co-written & directed by Joe Carnahan; co-written by Matthew Michael Carnahan,
from Ellroy's novel; co-produced by & starring George Clooney;
credits at IMDb
Fiction by James Ellroy
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"American Tabloid" [Knopf 1995]
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"Because The Night" [Mysterious Press 1984]
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"Blood On The Moon" [Mysterious Press 1984]
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"Blood's A Rover" [DUE in 2008] 
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"Brown's Requiem" [1981] about P.I. Fritz Brown
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"Clandestine" [Avon original pb 1982]
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"The Cold Six Thousand" [2001]
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"Crime Wave" [stories 1999]
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"Destination: Morgue!" [stories 2004]
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"Hollywood Nocturnes" [Dell pb 1995] / 6 stories + afterward
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Silent Terror" [aka "Killer On The Road" 1986]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Other Works by James Ellroy
"Street Kings" [Fox Searchlight April 2008]
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Two corrupt detectives of the L.A. Police Department under investigation by Internal Affairs team up to prove their innocence when a whistle-blower cop is murdered; evidence at the scene includes drugs in the dead cop's car and DNA from two major drug dealers; but the suspected cops discover the bodies of the drug dealers, who were killed long before the cop-killing.
Directed by David Ayer; script co-written by James Ellroy, based on Ellroy's short story "The Night Watchman"; starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Terry Crews, Cle Shaheed Sloan and rappers Common & The Game Fox widescreen color DVD [8/2008] for $19.99 
Fox widescreen color Blu-ray [8/2008] 2 disks for $27.95
full credits from IMDb • |