Just in case you've been hiding under a rock (as I have, I
had to read about this in Hockensmith's Reel Crime column in
the new AHMM), our own Terrill Lankford actually directed
that first chapter of ECHO PARK he mentioned screening along
with (*retch*) Altman's "The Long Goodbye" the other night
down there in LA.
Well, I just went and watched it on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ndCN3uHinE
And let me say this: when the time comes to have a trailer of
one of my books filmed, I know whose door I'm gonna go
knocking on: that's right, Terrill Lankford's!
I thought this was very well-done, and the use of the
book-on-CD voice-over at the beginning was particularly
effective. Tim Abell's Bosch wasn't the man-mountain I've
pictured when reading the novels, but I liked him in the
role, and wanted to see more (always a good sign).
Lastly, I thought it was pretty funny that Robert Altman was
thanked in the end credits. For my money, if they were going
to thank dead film-makers, they should have thanked Orson
Welles before Altman. That claustrophobic elevator shot there
at the end looked a heck of a lot more like something out of
JOURNEY INTO FEAR than BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS.
(Joking, I know that the Altman thing is tied-in with the
whole "Long Goodbye" thing).
Anyway, I figured this might interest other Rare Birds like
myself, who hadn't caught the previous messages about
it.
All the Best-
Brian
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