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	Mulholland Falls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mulholland Falls is a neo-noir 1996 film directed by Lee Tamahori.
		This film starts in the late 1940's with the squad of super-corrupt LAPD detectives who murder a man by throwing him off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, which has been nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the men they threw off it.
		Although "Mulholland Falls" calls the squad of cops charged with suppressing organized crime the "Hat Squad", but the detail responsible for combating organized crime was the Intelligence Division, run by Captain Jim Hamilton from the late '40s through the early '60s, when it was taken over by future LAPD Chief Daryl Gates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mulholland_Falls (723 words)

	Mulholland Falls (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'Mulholland Falls' might remain his last great role - he is giving an outstanding performance here, in a solid and well paced film.
		The 'Falls' not only is located in the 50s, but it is also done like a 50s movie.
		In my opinion, 'Mulholland Falls' does not fall behind, and later critics will place the two films on the same shelf of the movie history.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0117107 (449 words)

	'Mulholland Falls' (R)
		Ultimately, "Mulholland Falls," directed by Lee Tamahori (who made the viscerally charged "Once Were Warriors"), doesn't have the impressive authority it strives for.
		Actually, "Mulholland Falls," despite a muscular job of direction by Lee Tamahori ("Once Were Warriors"), is itself a sort of empty hat.
		Mulholland Falls is rated R for nudity and adult situations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mulhollandfalls.htm (1033 words)

	Mulholland Falls
		"Mulholland Falls" takes its title from a sharply dramatic prologue in which one hood is accosted in a swanky restaurant, escorted up to Mulholland Drive and then shoved off a cliff.
		But "Mulholland Falls" is so well cast and relentlessly stylish (thanks to some fine technical talent assembled here) that its sheer energy prevails over its shaky plot.
		Rating: "Mulholland Falls" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
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	Stomp Tokyo Review - Mulholland Falls
		Trailers for Mulholland Falls put a lot of emphasis on the fact that the cops in the story are based on the infamous Hat Squad from the 1950's Los Angeles police department.
		Mysteriously, her corpse shows all the signs of a fall from a great height, but no cliff is evident.
		The catch is that Mulholland Falls has all the dramatic pacing of a dead elephant, and the secret that is finally uncovered isn't even particularly remarkable.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/mulholland-falls.html (767 words)

	Mulholland Falls (1996)
		Occasionally this means plucking some wise-guy out of the criminal ranks and throwing him over a cliff (the so-called Mulholland Falls), but if he survives he sure isn't going to make trouble.
		The basic premise of Mulholland Falls is fine, dealing with the collision between post-war nuclear secrecy and a team of licensed vigilantes, with offshoots into personal morals.
		There are a few good points in the frankly ridiculous Mulholland Falls, mostly the fine camera-work and the creation of a detailed 50s backdrop.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Mulholland_Falls.html (684 words)

	Mulholland Drive
		Mulholland Drive is a compelling and confusing movie, one which garnered Lynch (The Straight Story, Lost Highway) the Best Director Award (shared with Joel and Ethan Coen) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
		This is especially true as Mulholland Drive nears its conclusion.
		Theroux's scenes seem there only for amusement, and he does a good job with his constant look of exasperation at what is going on around him.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/mulholland_drive.html (595 words)

	Mulholland falls to D-Backs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But the Diamondbacks needed a left-handed reliever, and they think they may have found one Tuesday in journeyman Terry Mulholland, a longtime Valley resident who has been rumored to be joining the team for several weeks.
		Mulholland agreed in principle to a minor league contract with Arizona, but according to reports, he will be guaranteed $800,000 if he's added to the 40-man roster coming out of spring training.
		In his career, the much-traveled Mulholland has a career record of 124-142 and a 4.40 ERA while pitching for San Francisco, Philadelphia, the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Seattle, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Minnesota.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/diamondbacks/articles/0104dbacks0104.html (428 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mulholland Falls
		Although her battered and broken body makes it looks as if she's taken a ride down Mulholland Falls herself, the coroner finds that her body had not been moved—she died right there in the subdivision's dirt.
		Mulholland Falls pushes all the correct neo-noir buttons—it's got the requisite tributes to Chinatown and other noir classics, the bad cops, the buxom babes, a smooth jazz score (courtesy of jazz pianist Dave Grusin), and solidly gruff, masculine male leads.
		Mulholland Falls isn't the best neo-noir film in the canon, but that doesn't make it a bad film.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mulhollandfalls.php (1279 words)

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		Usually, when a distributor keeps putting off a film's opening, it's a sign that there's something wrong with the production, and, about halfway through MULHOLLAND FALLS' one-hundred seven minute running length, we figure out what that "something" is: the plot, to put it charitably, is shaky.
		One day, they're called to investigate the murder of a young woman (Jennifer Connelly), who is found crushed to death a few miles outside LA. Clues, including a damning reel of salacious film, point to the involvement of a high-placed U.S. government official (John Malkovich).
		MULHOLLAND FALLS isn't a bad film, but it definitely is disappointing, especially coming from director Lee Tamahori, who brought the powerful ONCE WERE WARRIORS to the screen.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/51/5113 (576 words)

	MMI Review: Mulholland Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Mulholland Falls" aims for the heights of "Chinatown" and doesn't even match "The Two Jakes." A boring, low-energy parade of great clothes and draggy scenes, "Mulholland Falls" is a misfire, but a misfire with integrity.
		And if the producers had made an action movie like "The Untouchables" out of "Mulholland Falls," the cash registers would be ringing so loud that you'd barely be able to hear a screenwriter pounding out the sequel.
		"Mulholland Falls" is a disappointment because it lacks any of the visceral punch that director Lee Tamahori packed into his last film, "Once Were Warriors." And it's a dud because screenwriter Pete Dexter wore out his "Chinatown" tape instead of marshalling a single original thought.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/mulhollandfalls.html (417 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Mulholland Falls
		The titular Mulholland Falls refers to the smarmy practice of taking a criminal to the high point of the mountainous Mulholland Drive and booting him off, only to catch up with him sometime later at the bottom.
		Mulholland Falls is the preferred method of ridding 1950s L.A. of unwanted baddies, and it is most often used by a foursome of elite cops: Nick Nolte, Chazz Palminteri, Chris Penn, and Michael Madsen.
		Their newest mission: to find the murderer of Allison (Jennifer Connelly), a girl whose bizarre death leads the gang to a General (John Malkovich) at the Atomic Energy Commission and his number one thug (Treat Williams).
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/8bb75910aef0f1c88625631600180aac?OpenDocument (503 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Mulholland Falls" review
		"Mulholland Falls" looks like film noir -- dark, steamy performances, wonderfully shot in muted colors that hark of fl and white, a plot steeped in intrigue -- but it just falls flat somewhere.
		But just the fact that Griffith is in this film should serve as a warning that the producers weren't paying as much attention to "Mulholland Falls" as they should have been.
		Something just isn't right, and despite the look, feel and taste of '50s tough-guy detective grit, "Mulholland Falls" just sits there on the screen without much to say.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/mullholland.html (233 words)

	Nolte Takes Plunge Into Noir / `Mulholland Falls' stylish, if sometimes flat, L.A. cop film
		`Mulholland Falls'' is a provocative crime drama with a limp script and a forced feeling.
		``Mulholland Falls'' is a sexy film, with torrid undertones provided by a frequently topless Jennifer Connelly, who plays Allison.
		When sultry, wayward Allison gets murdered (there are crude 8mm films of her lovemaking taken in secret by a voyeuristic friend played by Andrew McCarthy), Nolte leads his hat squad in the investigation.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/04/26/DD53540.DTL (620 words)

	Mulholland Falls News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mulholland Falls News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		As film director Lee Tamahori prepares to start a community service sentence for his antics with an undercover cop in Los Angeles, Kim Knight goes in search of the man behind the headlines.
		Directed By: Lee Tamahori Mulholland Falls is the type of popcorn-drama the Toronto International Film Festival loves.
	www.topix.net /movies/mulholland-falls (631 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Mulholland Falls (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		``Mulholland Falls'' takes the idea of these licensed vigilantes andcrafts it into a ``Chinatown'' of the early Atomic Age.
		Palminteri is seeing a shrink because he has troublesleeping at night, no doubt because of his job (the film opens with the guysthrowing a gangster over the edge of Mulholland Drive with the helpful advice,``We don't want organized crime in L.A.!'').
		``Mulholland Falls'' is the first movie directed by Lee Tamahori sincehis powerful 1994 film ``Once Were Warriors,'' the story of violence and abusein a New Zealand Maori family.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960426/REVIEWS/604260303/1023 (759 words)

	Mulholland Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		All goes reasonably well for Hoover and his boys, until they cross swords with a group with a much bigger, and more mobile, Mulholland Falls: the U.S. government.
		It's hard to put into words, but Tamahori effectively translates it into images: most notably when Hoover and his squad stand on the edge of a nuclear bomb crater at a test site in the desert, and again when Hoover slinks through an off-limits cancer ward for nuclear test survivors.
		Mulholland Falls has a lot going for it, not the least of which is John Malkovich's performance as a nuclear scientist who's grown too close to his work.
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	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Mulholland Falls
		If the film's script at times strains credulity with its connect-the-dots nuclear secrets plot, it must be pointed out that gumshoe detective dramas are essentially pulp tales in which adherence to authenticity is not necessarily the most important trait.
		Mulholland Falls (1996) is a far better picture than it's been given credit for, and unfortunately began a long-running underappreciation of Tamahori's skills that continued through the even more unfairly maligned The Edge (1997).
		The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is preferable to the standard full-frame image.
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	IGN: Mulholland Falls Review
		Roman Polanski's 1974 classic Chinatown is often cited as having one of the finest screenplays ever, and its tale of murder and water supplies in '30s L.A. is the obvious inspiration and ripping-off point for the woefully ridiculous Mulholland Falls.
		These are the titular falls, yet they are never mentioned again in the entire movie.
		Mulholland Falls wastes its cast on a story that wouldn't pass muster on any TV cop show today, much less the noirs it obviously aspired to be in league with.
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	Review: Mulholland Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Following several release delays, Mulholland Falls has finally reached theaters.
		Because of its tone and subject matter, Mulholland Falls recalls Chinatown, albeit incompletely.
		Mulholland Falls isn't a bad film, but it definitely is disappointing, especially coming from director Lee Tamahori, who brought the powerful
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mulholland.html (566 words)

	Mulholland Falls (1996): Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen - PopMatters Film Review
		While the genre is usually described as having a particular moment (Maltese Falcon [1941] to Touch of Evil [1958]), its occasional resurrections have been notable, including 1974's Chinatown and 1997's L.A. Confidential.
		Released one year before the latter, Mulholland Falls was also promoted as a Los Angeles-based noir.
		Mulholland Falls is finally undone by its arid and sunny atmosphere.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/mulholland-falls-dvd.shtml (651 words)

	MULHOLLAND FALLS (An Illusion review by Joan Ellis.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Mulholland Falls" is a piece of vintage perfection.
		Set in the 50s, it is soaked in the feel of that freewheeling period, when the country was an unpoliced frontier during the short, euphoric transition between war and prosperity.
		These wildly disparate elements come neatly together in "Mulholland Falls," an eccentric detective story alive with the atmosphere of its time.
	www.joanellis.com /reviews/MULHOLLAND_FALLS.htm (420 words)

	Amazon.com: Mulholland Falls / Movie (1996) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		MULHOLLAND FALLS understands that romance and demonstrates it in spades.
		MULHOLLAND FALLS plays like jazz improv, riffing on all the touchstones of the genre.
		It's "Noir's Greatest Hits": You have the gorgeous dame with a dark past, the hard-boiled hero with secrets of his own, a heinous murder linked to corruption in high places, a sultry music score to back it all up, and cinematography that gives it all a hard edge with just a hint of nostalgia.
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	Mulholland Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It's just one example of unintentional irony in Lee (Once Were Warriors) Tamahori's disastrous Hollywood debut, Mulholland Falls.
		Set in LA in the '50s, it's the story of Hoover and his "Hat Squad," four bozos in hats riding in a convertible who solve cases and bust crime with fljacks, bad jokes, and latent homoerotic bonding.
		One day they find Hoover's ex-mistress embedded in a construction site; it looks as if she had been tossed off a cliff.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/04-25-96/MULHOLLAND_FALLS.html (200 words)

	Mulholland Falls
		So when the movie shows, it ends and leaves you mostly thinking "yeah so, but then what?" This is partially the case with Mulholland Falls.
		Nick Nolte as Lieutenant Hoover of the notorious hat squad of the 1950s L.A. gets involved in solving the murder of his former mistress Allison Pond (Jennifer Connelly) and stumbles onto a cover-up that involves the highest echelon of the new atomic energy commission and the military.
		Allison is supposed to be someone we care about, but all that is really noticeable about her are her very large and often exposed breasts.
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	FILM REVIEW -- Nick Nolte Plunges Into Noir / `Mulholland Falls' stylish, if slow
		Out on video this week, ``Mulholland Falls'' is 1950s noir through and through.
		``Mulholland Falls'' is a sexy film, with torrid undertones pro vided by a frequently topless Jennifer Connelly, who plays Allison.
		Despite Nolte's performance, ``Mulholland Falls'' falls flat a lot.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/08/30/DD32157.DTL (320 words)

	Kinnopio's Movie Reviews - Mulholland Falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Smartly, Mulholland Falls, the latest thriller to come out of off-the-main studio MGM, was written to take advantage of that time period.
		Unfortunately, for all the storytelling worth of the 1940s, this suspense work of intrigue and investigation comes off as rather bland, the result of a less-than-par cast providing uninspiring acting.
		The lavish elegance of the set design also pays homage to the story in ways that the acting does not, and in a small measure this compensates for the lack of convincing role-playing captured on film.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/1996/mulholland.htm (506 words)

	Mulholland Falls DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		A well-crafted but ultimately thin period piece taking place in late '40s-early '50s Southern California, MULHOLLAND FALLS is visually engaging entertainment that yet leaves you unsatisfied as the credits roll.
		Although MULHOLLAND FALLS samples many other period films, Tamahori's noir is never quite noir enough.
		Without more, MULHOLLAND FALLS disappointingly ends its run as a fairly mundane morality play about fidelity.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B0002V7O5Q (560 words)

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