Hollywoodland (2006)
Directed by Allen Coulter
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
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In a morning diner scene that could have been cut from David Lynchâs "Mulholland Drive" Simo presses his former L.A.P.D. partner to give him a hot tip.
Unfortunately, while the film appears to be a subscriber of Hollywood noirs like “L.A. Confidential” and “Mulholland Drive,” there’s nothing particularly noirish about it.
Or, to put it another way, the film is in the same terrain as Mulholland Drive without ever quite achieving Lynch's dizzy heights - but it is still several cuts above the recent, not entirely dissimilar Blue Dahlia.
Sweeping precariously close to L.A. Confidential (1997) and Auto Focus (2002) as well as several hundred other recent biopics, Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland nevertheless manages a flavor of its own.
The multi-layered storytelling in this film noir reveals that director Allen Coulter has great admiration for both Chinatown and L.A. Confidential as explorations of crime, sexuality, power, wealth, and betrayal.
As a noirish investigation into Tinseltown's wannabes, also-rans, bottom-feeders, has-beens and no-hopers, Hollywoodland occupies that rarefied space somewhere between L.A. Confidential and Sunset Boulevard.
In fact, the acting in the film is terrific and goes a long way toward creating the film's old Hollywood feel â even though Hollywoodland never achieves the same definition as its obvious model L.A. Confidential.
His first feature, "Hollywoodland," while studious, had a lot going for it.
Director Allen Coulter has done some solid work on TV and previously directed “Hollywoodland,” but he should have made first time screenwriter Will Fetters go back to the word processor and re-work the third act, because in a matter of minutes “Remember Me” goes from something that might have been memorable to a wholly unnecessary disappointment.•••…
Director Allen Coulter (2006's " Hollywoodland ") brings little style or technical panache to his gritty filmmaking, allowing the cast to do the talking and trusting that they will be able to carry the proceedings to their somewhat startling conclusion.
Though generally well-orchestrated by Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland), who evokes turn-of-the-21st-century New York City with subtle specificity, the raft of subplots in Remember Me distract from the love story as much as they complicate it.
(This is director Allen Coulter's second film; his first was the 2006 "Hollywoodland.")
Allen Coulter, who made the very good Hollywoodland (2006), directs this romantic drama about two damaged souls who come together in 2001 New York.
Like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” much pleasure is derived here from pulling various iterations of beloved characters back into the mix, the filmmakers reaching all the way to the 1950s (unless it flashed by, they missed a fun opportunity to show Ben Affleck as Superman in the George Reeves biopic “Hollywoodland”).