If Son of Sam's voices had dictated feverish crime stories rather than sinister doggerel and murderous directives, David Berkowitz might have been James Ellroy. Odds are that most people know Ellroy through Curtis Hanson's film version of L.A.
CONFIDENTIAL, and through the critically acclaimed
My Dark Places, Ellroy's searing, nonfiction investigation of his mother's 1958 murder. This 1995 documentary -- which provides a glimpse behind the veil of fiction -- predates both, but it hardly matters: If it had been shot last week,
Ellroy's contemptuous rant about movie-industry sleazebags would have exempted Hanson alongside James B. Harris, who made Ellroy's
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Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins