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• Title:Los Angeles plays itself / writer/director, Thom Anderson.
  
• ISBN:0781514851
  9780781514859
  
• Publication:New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 2013.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2014
  
• Physical Description:1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm)
  

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  • Location:FILM ARCHIVE--Video Collection
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  • Call Number: videoblu-ray 39002129688850
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: blu-ray,
    booklet
    

   
• Notes:Title from sell sheet.
  Originally produced in 2003.
  Bonus features: The Tony Longo trilogy (2014, 14 minutes) a short film by Thom Andersen ; theatrical trailer ; collectible booklet featuring essays by Mike Davis and Thom Andersen.
  
• Summary:Thom Andersen's landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, as seen entirely through the films themselves. From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and revealing the real city that lives beneath.
  
• Variant and related titles: Tony Longo trilogy.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Credits:Editor, Yoo Seung-Hyun ; camera, Deborah Stratman ; remastering (2013), Adam R. Levin, Peter Bo Rappmund.
  
• Performers:Narrator, Encke King.
  
• System details note:Blu-ray, widescreen (1.85:1), DTS-HD 2.0; requires Blu-ray player.
  
• Audience:Rating: Not rated.
  
• Contents:Part one : Another way to look at movies. Reality and representation. Locations. Hollywood. "L.A." and "the industry". The city as background: the city with no name. The Bradbury Building. The decline of public spaces. Benign lies. Geographic license and literalism. Modern architecture .Landmarks. Disaster movies. The city as character: James M. Cain. A brighter world.Film noir. Things that aren't there any more. Bunker Hill -- Part two : High tourist/low tourist. The outside men: Deray, Antonioni, Demy. The city as subject: Chinatown. Modes of transportation. Downtown vs. the suburbs. Blade Runner. L.A. confidential.Cops. The provincialism of over-privilege. Neorealism.
  Booklet : The introduction / Thom Andersen -- Tourists from hell / Mike Davis -- Los Angeles a city on film / Thom Andersen.
  
• Subjects:Motion pictures--United States--History.
  Popular culture--California--Los Angeles.
  Motion pictures.
  Popular culture.
  Los Angeles (Calif.)--In motion pictures.
  Los Angeles (Calif.)--History.
  California--Los Angeles.
  United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Documentary films.
  Nonfiction films.
  Feature films.
  Film clips.
  Documentary films.
  Feature films.
  Film clips.
  History.
  Nonfiction films.
  
• Also listed under:Anderson, Thom, screenwriter, film director.
  King, Encke M., narrator.
  Cinema Guild, film distributor.