rakontur

April 20, 2006

Those still flaunting a pastel wardrobe and a passion for Miami Vice won’t want to miss Billy Corben’s corrective exposé of the city’s darker days: the coke-fueled late ’70s and early ’80s, when a frightening murder rate prompted Time to run a cover story declaring the city “Paradise Lost.” A pulse-pounding dossier of criminal high life (and lowlifes), the doc also boasts an awesome synth score by none other than Jan Hammer.