Avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill's haunting ode to pulp fiction and the now-vanished Ambassador Hotel is steeped in decaying Los Angeles glamour and the ghosts of noir thrillers past. Eight years in the making and a stunning synthesis of craft and ideas, it turns the once-grand, now-crumbling Ambassador — famous as home to the fabulous Cocoanut Grove restaurant and the first Academy Awards ceremonies; notorious as the place where Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy — into a spook house peopled by B-movie archetypes. Jaded socialites, practical maids, cops and gangsters, grifters, barflies, con men, and suicide blondes, all shot in shimmering black and ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
74 mins