Word: noirland
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...never a happy one--ask Philip Marlowe. But he didn't have to fight racism while trying to fight crime. Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a black man, does. And it grants Carl Franklin's cool, crisp adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel (set in classic noirland, '40s L.A.) the edge, weight and revitalizing relevance long needed by a genre often made limply nostalgic...
That spring night I was nosing through Noirland on the track of a sharpie named Steve Martin. Seems he's been breaking and entering the great movie genres of the past. Martin started off cleverly enough. Who cared that with The Jerk he was stealing from Jerry Lewis? But then, made reckless by success, the guy ransacked the old Busby Berkeley musicals and called the forgery Pennies from Heaven. Now he's pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private...
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