Year: 2003
Country: United States
Director: Thom Andersen
Cast: Encke King, Ben Alexander, Jim Backus, Brenda Bakke
IMBD: Link
Language : English
Subtitles : English, Italian
Los Angeles Plays Itself is a video essay by Thom Anderson about how movies have portrayed the city of Los Angeles. Carefully weaving together footage from dozens of films made in or about the city, Anderson gradually builds his thesis about how Hollywood has represented, and misrepresented, its home town.
Movies about Los Angeles have been, for the most part, period films, set in the past or in the future, and they replace the public history of the city with a secret history, opaque to its citizens. This urban legend is not innocent. It serves to dissuade naive viewers from political engagement by telling them that they are condemned to ignorance and powerlessness, not matter what they do. In fact,the truth is the opposite: the public history is the real history, as the treatments of films such as Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and L.A. Confidential demonstrate.
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Chapters:
00:00:00,000-00:01:36,721: 1.1. Credits {eng}
00:01:36,721-00:04:27,016: 1.2. Another Way to Look at Movies {eng}
00:04:27,016-00:09:05,753: 1.3. Reality and Representation {eng}
00:09:05,753-00:12:07,059: 1.4. Locations {eng}
00:12:07,059-00:15:16,332: 1.5. Hollywood {eng}
00:15:16,332-00:17:52,988: 1.6. "L.A." and "The Industry" {eng}
00:17:52,988-00:21:22,990: 1.7. The City as Background: The City with No Name {eng}
00:21:22,990-00:26:09,109: 1.8. The Bradbury Building {eng}
00:26:09,109-00:34:12,216: 1.9. The Decline of Public Space {eng}
00:34:12,216-00:38:39,609: 1.10. Benign Lies {eng}
00:38:39,609-00:42:55,614: 1.11. Geographic License and Literalism {eng}
00:42:55,614-00:49:56,118: 1.12. Modern Architecture {eng}
00:49:56,118-00:56:01,274: 1.13. Landmarks {eng}
00:56:01,274-01:01:39,904: 1.14. Disaster Movies {eng}
01:01:39,904-01:10:26,722: 1.15. The City As Character: James M. Cain {eng}
01:10:26,722-01:12:28,636: 1.16. A Brighter World {eng}
01:12:28,636-01:15:56,343: 1.17. Film Noir {eng}
01:15:56,343-01:25:19,280: 1.18. Things That Aren't There Any More {eng}
01:25:19,280-01:32:12,652: 1.19. Bunker Hill {eng}
01:32:12,652-01:41:28,749: 2.1. High Tourist / Low Tourist {eng}
01:41:28,749-01:46:22,084: 2.2. The Outside Men: Deray, Antonioni, Demy {eng}
01:46:22,084-01:57:34,797: 2.3. The City as Subject: Chinatown {eng}
01:57:34,797-02:03:55,678: 2.4. Modes of Transportation {eng}
02:03:55,678-02:07:24,470: 2.5. Downtown vs. The Suburbs {eng}
02:07:24,470-02:10:50,676: 2.6. Blade Runner {eng}
02:10:50,676-02:16:40,567: 2.7. L.A. Confidential {eng}
02:16:40,567-02:30:30,730: 2.8. Cops {eng}
02:30:30,730-02:40:00,007: 2.9. The Provincialism of Over-Privilege {eng}
02:40:00,007-02:49:25,613: 2.10. Neorealism {eng}
02:49:25,613-02:50:15,018: 2.11. End Credits {eng}
This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 17-07-2025 00:40:49