Rack up 500 points and you'll score a $5 reward for more movies. Any city where you have to drive to a pedestrian district cannot be called a walking city, no matter how much we might want it to be one. This tension between past and future is precisely what draws me to downtown, where the old and new cities circle back on one another like an ouroboros. Los Angeles Plays Itself. Along the way, he illustrates his concerns of how the real city and its people are misrepresented and distorted through the prism of popular film culture. Downtown is a perfect case in point. Los Angeles Plays Itself. a deal breaker. Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. You can see this in the most unexpected locations, from Rick Caruso’s Grove to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where Chris Burden’s sculpture Urban Light—a cluster of 202 working vintage lampposts—fundamentally changed the nature of Wilshire Boulevard when it was installed in 2008. Go to the project’s website, and you’ll find a computer-generated image of a hypermodern car, green and blue, streamlined as a bullet, with the tower of the Marriott in the background, and a cyclist, wearing helmet and backpack, passing alongside. [11], The film won the National Film Board Award for Best Documentary at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival and was voted best documentary of 2004 by the Village Voice Critic's Poll. Sometimes, this is the city in which we were raised, the city that imprinted us, which is why I have created in Los Angeles a lifestyle more suited to New York or San Francisco, walking to the bank, to the dry cleaner, to the grocery store, to a restaurant or coffee shop, to the La Brea Tar Pits and the County Museum. Here we have a vision of the new Los Angeles, eco-friendly and sustainable, in which downtown is transformed into an emblem of the future and not of the past. Plays Itself is a 1972 American experimental gay pornographic film, directed and produced by Fred Halsted. At the film's screening, Salvador Dalí was reportedly quoted as saying, "new information for me". Summary: Documentary about how Hollywood is portrayed on screen. [12], Interview with Thom Andersen on WNYC Radio, Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself is finally coming to home video/The Dissolve, Bringing It Back: An Interview With Thom Andersen, Thom Andersen interview with StopSmiling Magazine, Collateral Damage: Los Angeles Continues Playing Itself by Thom Andersen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself&oldid=966573937, Documentary films about the cinema of the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 July 2020, at 21:40. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. Its self-image has long been one of cool containment, the autopia of Reyner Banham and Cees Nooteboom. Light rail, subways, bike lanes, a transportation network in which the one-car-one-commuter ethos is replaced by something more inclusive, an infrastructure that reflects less how the city may once have seen itself than what it has become. I am pulled, in other words, by the way history in these blocks exists just below the surface, a hidden language we must teach ourselves to read. To live here is to play an elaborate Situationist game of psychogeography, in which we displace ourselves by interposing the psychic map of one city over another city’s terrain. In the foreground, the Hotel Nadeau sits across from Western Union, and the pavement is cluttered with electric streetcars, at least seven I can count. But then, L.A. may be unique among American cities for having lost sight of its boulevards as public space. Some of those San Francisco trolleys, PCC-brand streetcars from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, are painted to look like L.A. Red Cars: another irony, since the downtown trolley, if it ever gets completed, will no longer be a vintage line. One night not so very long ago, I went to visit a friend who lives in West Hollywood. © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. For a long time, downtown was an enigma to me, an emblem of the dreamlike, floating quality of Los Angeles. The film is a remarkable documentary, charting the history of how Los Angeles is portrayed in the movies. [8], Andersen stated that the film idea occurred to him after a lecture he gave at the California Institute of the Arts, where he talked about his objections to L.A.

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