L.A. Confidential (35mm)

Released in 1997, L.A. Confidential arrived at a moment when film noir was enjoying a resurgence on screen (Body Heat, The Last Seduction, Miller’s Crossing). Adapted from James Ellroy’s 1990 sprawling crime novel, director Curtis Hanson crafted a richly detailed portrait of 1950s Los Angeles, where corruption, celebrity, and crime intersect beneath the city's glamorous surface.

Three policemen, each with his own motives and obsessions, tackle the corruption surrounding an unsolved murder at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop in the early 1950s. Detective Lieutenant Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a murdered detective, is out to avenge his father's killing. The ex-partner of Officer White (Russell Crowe), implicated in a scandal rooted out by Exley, was one of the victims. Sergeant Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) feeds classified information to a tabloid magnate (Danny DeVito).