Reading, Watching 5/18

Books, Movies

Last week I did a double-feature of two mid-nineties neo-noirs set in Los Angeles: Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) and Mulholland Falls (1996). During the ’90s there was a mini-boom of noir revival films that I guess kicked off with Basic Instinct (1992) and culminated with L.A. Confidential (1997), as the classical, Apollonian representative of the genre,…