The new The Killer Inside Me

Ed here: Charles McGarth has a notably wise take on the new version of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. He also includes an interview with Bertrand Tavernier who did the finest Thompson film of all "Pop. 1280." This is Celine without the self-pity and kvetching.

Like many Thompson novels "The Killer Inside Me" is told in the first person, and the reader eventually discovers that Lou is himself dead: he's speaking to the reader from beyond the grave, as it were, and his narrative voice is a...