Inside the Noir World of Love Loaded | StarTraci Talks with Director Jan Miller Carron
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Talking Film Noir
Looking for a great night in?
Well, I interviewed the director of the now-streaming neo-noir film, "Love Loaded" and we talked about the fun of a full-color, modern love version.
Transcript:
I'm Star Traci, and we are here to discuss Love Loaded, and I am here with the director, Jan. I am so excited to talk to you about this new twist on film noir, which is one of my favorite genres. So
let me take a moment to let you introduce yourself properly and then we will get to it.
Okay Um well I'm Jan Miller Koran and um I directed this film I also wrote it and I co-produced it with Monica Young and Monica Young plays Dee Dee Scanlon in the film Um so um and is a torch singer in the film So um yeah So we all kind of mesh together here
Thank you It was very fun and she did an amazing trifecta in the film, being a singer, actress, and now I'm learning, helped write it too Uh I enjoyed her performance, both as a singer and as an actress, so wow you really you you had a a powerhouse as a partner there I really did. Yeah, she's a wonderful composer, so yeah. Well, my husband and I are big fans of the 1940s '50s
genre of films. We have re-watched The Big Sleep and all of those many times so I enjoyed um the throwback to them but also the fact that you wove in some very modern love twists to it and I hope I won't be like s- being spoiler alert if I speak to some of that.
I don't I don't think so It's been in a lot of festivals and um- Okay good you know different things I just I never want to be- I don't think you ca- uh you know I don't worry about spoilers I I think of every time someone hears something like that they think "Ah I gotta see how this played out." So that's why.
Well, I agree I because I think it it speaks very highly to the film that there is a love triangle that involves a woman with Dee Dee, the character named Dee Dee, in the film, and that her old female love uh s-
female love uh s- and fellow singer comes back to create this love triangle, plus there's a murder mystery that may or may not involve her, and then also there is a... there's an ode to a I believe he was one of the police officers No No it was one of the bad guys. He has he he has a boyfriend too so I liked that there were this very modern things that you don't see in the old ones in playing into this. And of course, as also with always happens in film noires, the place is as much a character in the film as
anything. There were definitely the places, and LA was seemed to be very much, and the Figaro Club and such, a part of it. So I got that feeling. So was this something you always wanted to write? Has this been sitting in your head? How did this come to be?
No It actually hadn't been sitting in my head Um I actually 'cause I like film noir too you know and I like all of them even the ones starring people that we'd never heard of in our entire life um and never will ever see again you know But um one day I turned on Turner Classic Movies I think it was or and uh Farewell My Lovely was on with Robert Mitchum and um I loved the way it opened and I loved the voiceover as he's looking out the window and um onto the city and all that And um Monica Young who plays Dee Dee in the film she had done uh my a previous film with me called Concerto for Abigail and I thought "Wow let's make I'll write a film noir except let's put it in a nightclub and get Monica to be our torch singer." And so that's really how it was born Um and I had n- now I'd written mysteries before but film noir um is a little different So uh this was a kind of that combination of film noir meets Agatha Christie meets Hercule Poirot you know Uh and then- I think I- Then luckily luckily I had Monica.
Yes, the ending is very Hercule Poirot, with the like- Yes "Nope you have to sit and wait till we figure tell you-" Wait your turn Yes Yes I see that. Well, I definitely see that feel and as a lover of mysteries too um my husband and I watched all the various versions of Hercule Poirot so,
I fully respect that as well. Well, I know that it did go to many of the festivals and where uh will it be playing going forward? Where can I tell my uh readers and viewers to
go see it?
Okay Well it's going to release worldwide on November 13th- Okay which is just this Friday- Yeah coming up I think Yes Um and that will go you know on Amazon Prime and you know all the streaming services On Demand on your cable channel Um and then but we were invited to um screen it in St Louis on Saturday Mm-hmm And uh generally I don't go to festivals after the film is released but they really want it So Saturday it's gonna screen at the St Louis International Film Festival And I'm bringing a lot about 5 or 6 of the cast with me Um I've had my other films be there before and uh they love going to St Louis Um and it's a fantastic festival so Um then you know but after that after Friday just go look on your streaming services and you'll hopefully find it and-
Oh, for sure, I will make sure that they know to look for it on the streaming and I will give it a thumbs up for a great fun ode to a love of noir which um sounds like you have as much as I And um Monica is definitely a perfect choice for a torch singer because she has the chops And um I will look forward to maybe seeing you and she um put something new together because- Oh I am a newly formed fan
Oh thank you And I will have to go back a- and see your your last project together because this was my first introduction but I had a lot of fun watching your film so Oh good good Yeah, you'll see her in Concerto for Abigail. She's a concert pianist in that, so and she pulls it off. So yeah
Well thank you Jan Miller Caron um for your time today And for those joining me for Star Traci: Let's Talk Entertainment be sure after this coming Friday November 13th to tune into whatever is your fam- favorite streaming device to see Love Loaded There's a lot going on and if you're a film noir fan like I am and/or an Agatha Christie fan 'cause there's a lot of that laid in there too this will be a great fun evening in Especially with winter coming just turn up the fire turn up the TV and you'll have lots to do that evening. Thank you.
