Come anticipate LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF with me.

in my head I do hear the title in the 2nd way that Eric delineated in the first post

I liked the segment on The City as a Character, although the categorization of directors as high-tourist (Antonioni, Corman) or low-tourist (Hitchcock, Allen) was kind of strange. The City as Subject was the best part of the film I thought, especially the analysis of Chinatown, the parallels between the fictional story and real history, and the resonant subsidiary theme of the anxiety over transportation in Los Angeles. And then the discussions of Sunset Boulevard, Blade Runner, LA Confidential, The Player, Killer of Sheep

Needs a sequel focused on Bosch

“Sometimes I wonder if we are more obsessed with the police than people in other cities. Is there any other city where the police put their motto in quotation marks? Are they trying to be ironic?”

There's a free online showing of this next Saturday at 4:00 PST via Kanopy. You have to register for it, and sign up with LACMA.

https://theautry.org/events/film-and-television/virtual-screening-and-watch-party-los-angeles-plays-itself-2003