James Ellroy's Feast of Death
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Vikram Jayanti
Nick Nolte
James Ellroy
Maryse Alberti
Maryse Alberti
Erica Banks
Film Details
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Synopsis
Think fast: who committed the gruesome "Black Dahlia" murder in Los Angeles in 1947? If you don't know, you're not alone. It's perhaps Hollywood's most celebrated unsolved homicide. Yet in this portrait of master crime author James Ellroy, we gain great insight -indeed, perhaps even the outright solution- to the puzzle of that crime, as well as insight into the murder of Ellroy's own mother, who was killed when Ellroy was only ten years old. Loosely framed around two long, sumptuous dinners at LA's Pacific Dining Car restaurant, at which Ellroy engages in candid conversation with his friends in the LAPD Homicide division, the film looks at the complex relationship between cops and murder victims and those who survive them. But the film is also a literal and figurative tour into the dark places of Ellroy's psyche, places illuminated here by the white-hot beam of a police cruiser's spotlight.
Director
Vikram Jayanti
Crew
Maryse Alberti
Maryse Alberti
Erica Banks
Alan Barker
Alan Barker
Ulli Bonnekamp
Nigel Edwards
James Ellroy
Perry Gibbs
Michael Grinage
Roger Hendry
Vikram Jayanti
Vikram Jayanti
Greg King
Rob Lane
Joseph Massier
Emma Matthews
Andrew Mitchell
Nick Nolte
Celia Quartermain
Antonio Rossi
Mike Snaith
Mika Sogawa
Dyanna Taylor
Brandon Terrell
Brandon Terrell
Anthony Wall
Mark Weingartner
Aaron D Weisblatt
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States June 2001
Aired in United States March 25, 2008
Aired in United States November 3, 2003
Aired in United States September 2001
Originally a feature film released at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, project was acquired by Showtime June 2003
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Real to Reel) September 6-15, 2001.
Aired on Showtime Network November 3, 2003.
Straight-to-cable release.
