Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Noirvember closes with James B. Harris’s Cop (1988)—the first time James Ellroy’s feverish fiction hit the big screen. Mike teams with Andrew Nette and Rod Lott for a deep read of Harris’s adaptation, where James Woods’s unhinged Detective Lloyd Hopkins hunts a killer across eighteen years of buried violence.

The trio digs into Ellroy’s original novel Blood on the Moon and the wilder, abandoned incarnation that came before it—L.A. Death Trip, the unsold, manuscript that first birthed Hopkins. Using material from Ellroy’s own accounts and critical studies (including the brute-force early drafts, the rewrites demanded by Otto Penzler and Nat Sobel, and the shift to publishable structure), the conversation maps how a doomed finale turned into a tight serial-killer pursuit.

The episode also features a new interview with James B. Harris, who breaks down the challenges of translating Ellroy’s structure, keeping Hopkins’s mania intact, and staying faithful to the narrative rhythms of the novel. What emerges is a portrait of a filmmaker wrestling with source material born in chaos—reforged into the dark, abrasive thriller that helped spark decades of Ellroy adaptations.


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Episode 601: The Ninth Gate  (1999)

Episode 601: The Ninth Gate (1999)

Noirvember and Shocktober meet on this episode as we discuss Roman Polanski’s 1999 film The Ninth Gate. Based on the book The Club Dumas, the film tells the tale of Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a book ...

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Special Report: Casper Kelly on Adult Swim's Yule Log (2022)

Special Report: Casper Kelly on Adult Swim's Yule Log (2022)

On this special episode, Mike talks to writer/director Casper Kelly about his latest film, the surprise movie, Adult Swim's Yule Log (AKA The Fire Place). It's the story of a log burning in the firep...

12 Dec 202211min

Special Report: Rachael Stoeltje and Laura Rooney on AMIA

Special Report: Rachael Stoeltje and Laura Rooney on AMIA

On this special episode Mike talks to Rachael Stoeltje and Laura Rooney of the The Association of Moving Image Archivists about the AMIA 2022 conference and the good work that they're doing in media p...

11 Dec 202237min

Special Report: The Leech (2022)

Special Report: The Leech (2022)

On this special episode, Mike talks to writer/director Eric Pennycoff and actor Graham Skipper about the recent horror thriller, The Leech. In it, Skipper plays Father David, a devout priest who welc...

10 Dec 202219min

Episode 600: Local Hero (1983)

Episode 600: Local Hero (1983)

It’s the 600th episode of The Projection Booth and we’re celebrating with a special episode all about Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero. Released in 1983, the film stars Peter Riegert as MacIntyre, a corpora...

8 Dec 20223h 11min

Special Report: Peter Stormare on Food and Romance (2022)

Special Report: Peter Stormare on Food and Romance (2022)

Mike geeks out talking to Swedish dynamo Peter Stormare about his latest film, Food and Romance (2022).Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast...

3 Dec 202216min

Episode 599: Sunset Blvd (1950)

Episode 599: Sunset Blvd (1950)

We conclude #Noirvember 2022 with a look at Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. Released in 1950, the film tells the story of Joe Gillis (William Holden), a screenwriter who meets a faded star of yesteryear,...

30 Nov 20222h 22min

Special Report: More with Lisa Eichhorn

Special Report: More with Lisa Eichhorn

It was so great talking with Lisa Eichhorn that I asked her about a lot more than Cutter's Way. We discussed her work with John Schlesinger, her friendship with Alan Rickman, and more.Become a suppor...

24 Nov 202234min

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