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Rated: Unrated; Genre: Documentary; With: James Ellroy
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By Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson is a critic for EW. He lives in Brooklyn.

Guiding a historical tour of L.A. lawlessness, crime novelist James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) spouts self-aggrandizements gross enough to make Norman Mailer blush. (Saith he, ''The books of mine are stupefyingly complex.'') But when filmmaker Reinhard Jud cuts through the bluster to explore Ellroy's imagination — one shaped by fixations on classic noir, his mother's murder, and California evil — he entrances us during James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction with poetic salacity and rhapsodic seaminess. B


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Posted Nov 13, 1998
 

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