An Afternoon Noir Film Discussion with Foster Hirsch

LA Confidential (1997) R 2 hr. 16 min

The seedy side of 1950s L.A. sets the stage for this stylish crime thriller starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. In a tale of deceit and corruption, three cops work together to solve a multiple murder that took out one of their own. Kim Basinger, James Cromwell. Based on James Ellroy's novel.

Starring: Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn

This screening event is co-sponsored by Gold Coast Arts Center, followed by a conversation with Professor / Author FOSTER HIRSCH.

To RSVP call Gold Coast Arts at 516-829-2570 or click here to get your free tickets through their website.

Foster Hirsch is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, and A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio. He lives in New York City. His newest book, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties, is a fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system is set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts.