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197 L.A. CONFIDENTIALWarner Bros., 1997PRINCIPAL CAST Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell,Kim Basinger, Danny DeVitoDIRECTORCurtis HansonPRODUCERSCurtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael NathansonSCREENWRITERS Brian Helgeland, Curtis HansonThree cops with crosses to bear are caught in the crossfire of police and mobcorruption in 1950s Los Angeles. Based on James Ellroy’s multi-layered story,Hanson creates a seedy film-noir collection of Hollywood wanna-be’s and has-been’s,all of whom are just one step away from the truth.198 THE LADY EVEParamount, 1941PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORPRODUCERSCREENWRITERSBarbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles CoburnPreston SturgesPaul JonesPreston Sturges, Monckton HoffeFonda is a doltish bachelor and heir to the Pike’s Pale Ale fortune, who preferssnakes to women. Stanwyck is a con woman who tries to fleece him on an oceanvoyage and winds up falling in love with him. When he discovers her ruse and dumpsher, she decides to fleece him again by assuming a British accent and posing as LadyEve Sidwich. “They say a moonlit deck is a woman’s business office.”199 THE LAST EMPERORColumbia, 1987PRINCIPAL CAST John Lone, Peter O’Toole, Joan ChenDIRECTORBernardo BertolucciPRODUCERJeremy ThomasSCREENWRITERS Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark PeploeThis historical epic tells the story of China’s changing political landscape in the 20thcentury through the life of China’s final emperor, Pu Yi. Told in a non-linear stylethat spans many decades, Pu Yi goes from an object of adoration to a facelessgardener in communist China. Bertolucci was the first Western filmmaker providedthe privilege of filming inside the Forbidden City.200 THE LAST PICTURE SHOWColumbia, 1971PRINCIPAL CAST Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben JohnsonDIRECTORPeter BogdanovichPRODUCERStephen J. FriedmanSCREENWRITERS Peter Bodganovich, Larry McMurtryThe closing of a movie theatre in a small Texas town during the 1950s marks thechanges that face a group of young people coming of age.American Film Institute 67