A Film By Reinhard Jud
James Ellroy, the best-selling author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places,
is one of America's most original and daring writers, often compared to Dashiell
Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His obsession with crime began with his mother's
murder when he was a young boy and led, for a time, to his own life of petty
crime, drugs, and drink.
In this critically acclaimed film, Ellroy gives a guided tour of Los Angeles'
(and his own) dark secrets and devious passions. Accompanied by his pit bull
Barko, Ellroy cruises L.A.'s streets in his old Cadillac convertible, visiting
the notorious Black Dahlia murder scene and rhapsodizing about the vast conspiracy
of police and city corruption imagined in L.A. Confidential. James Ellroy: Demon
Dog captures the artist at his weirdest and best, soaked in the paranoid atmosphere
of his own books.
"Hugely entertaining, truly chilling!" -Film Journal
"The dark prince of pulp fiction!" -Newsday
"Not since Crumb has a documentary focused on an artist this articulate
with a family history of equally ferocious dysfunctionality - and been so engrossing!"
--New York Post
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