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Mulholland Falls [Region 2] | ![Mulholland Falls [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/718HA17976L._SL500_.gif) | Director: Lee Tamahori
Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Category: DVD
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Rating:  46 reviews
Format: PAL
Language: German (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 743215529828
EAN: 0743215529828
ASIN: B00004RYAF
Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Too much surface. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir story serves as a McGuffin to its ripe style. Amid secret agendas and unspeakable acts onscreen you stare at the fall of light across old cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of naked Jennifer Connelly, your mind wanders. Ah, yes, an allusion to the opening shots of Chinatown. Roman Polanski's grand reinvocation of the dark intuitions of 1940s noir is there, too, in the sumptuous look, the plump list of stars (Nick Nolte, Michael Madsen, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich), and the swoony, bittersweet soundtrack. The zigzags of the story that bring together two cheating husbands, one pneumatic babe, and (somehow) homosexuality waywardly recall The Big Sleep. The Atomic Energy Commission subplot feels like an homage to Kiss Me Deadly. With so many other movies to please, by the middle of the film it's clear that the story isn't going to thicken, that for all the amperage in Nolte's performance, for all the male rage in Michael Madsen and Chazz Palminteri, the hints of sexual malfeasance aren't going much past Nolte's domestic guilt about his affair with Connelly. And yet there are rich things. Tracing a path from his girlfriend to the head of the Commission (Malkovich), Nolte listens, hat in hand, to a purring existential science lecture about the invisible world of atoms. "Yeah," Nolte growls, "well, I see too much." Would that the filmmakers had let us see more. --Lyall Bush
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 Mulholland Falls October 7, 2009
G. hill (Cerritos, Ca.)
The quality of service and DVD thru. Amazom has been fantastic. I had the opportunity to buy new or used DVD's and so far I have been buying the new DVD's.
 Dick Tracy gone bad September 10, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
The opening of the film is the tumbling down a cliff of a mobster by the
LA police hit squad.
Nick Nolte plays a police detective who is a blunt instrument
and Melanie Griffith is his Tess Trueheart.
I think the best acting in this movie is by Chazz Palminteri
as the partner.
We have the LA police department meets Army Intelligence
and the FBI and the secret of radiation cancer exposure of
soldiers in Nevada tests.
Jennifer Connelly has a lot of exposure, but not a lot of speaking roles
as the girl thrown from an air plane over LA
whose murder is being investigated.
This movie has everything to be a big hit:
sex, violence, homosexuality and atomic secrets;
so why doesn't it click like L.A. Confidential?
I liked the movie, but think that it could have been done better.
Mullholland Music August 31, 2009
Pamela A. Lievanos (Phoenix, AZ)
Excellent CD. Beautiful music to drive, walk, or just listen to. Takes you back in time.
 Dave Grusin writes a mean score March 7, 2009
Ektoman (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had to comment after reading review after review of whole-movie reviews for this product - which is the SOUNDTRACK for the film.
Dave Grusin is as accomplished a writer as he is a player - Mulholland Falls particularly shows off a lush period score that fits the movie perfectly (whatever you think of it). I only liked the central actress in the film (Jennifer Connelly - she's stunning) but was thouroughly impressed the the ultra atmospheric score, with rich jazz harmony and dark, dynamic swells - it really fits into the detective film-noir genre.
I don't usually pay attention to film scores that much but I heard this one and wanted to transcribe it. Now I know it's Grusin I'll get around to it sooner.
 1.5 stars out of 4 February 3, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
A garish and ridiculous neo-noir that features Nick Nolte in full screen-chewing mode, Melanie Griffith in full awful-Melanie-Griffith mode, and some truly terrible dialogue and situations, Mulholland Falls has a good first scene but nothing else to recommend it.
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