Come anticipate LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF with me.

los angeles qlays itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_9TejlVjOQ

this movie was good but kind of boring btw

I liked it!

(both of them)

yeah me too but I fell asleep for a bit

but then again I am just a sleepy guy

los angeles plays with itself

the inevitable porn parody

― the subject of many paedo's thoughts (history mayne), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 9:47 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

er, except that the film is already a reference to a notorious gay porn film, "l.a. plays itself."

damn. the porn industry takes a dim view of redundancy of that sort, i know.

ha

Heads up, Los Angelenos:

http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/thursday.html#thomandersen

I saw Andersen's (& admrl's) Get Out of the Car last night! Super, now I can't wait to see decayed L.A. (and some of those murals)for myself.

Sorry, I should've alerted NYers that it was playing @ Anthology's "Pedro Costa Selects" series.

Haha

I could give you the tour if there is anything specific you want to see. I need to get back to Watts, in particular.

For Angelenos - the film is showing at REDCAT nov 22nd, but tickets are selling FAST.

wish I was here for longer :/

i put some of LA Plays Itself on last night while i was eating my dinner, having just read about the new one in filmcomment. kind of tempted to episodically rescreen it over several meals and bedtimes. so soothing.

would love to see the new one. andersen has an article of some sort up on cinemascope at the mo, also.

It's LOS ANGELES Plays Itself =)

Never heard it described as soothing, that is funny!

Where are you, schlump? There are going to be more screenings over the coming months?

oops that last ? was accidental

At REDCAT on Monday:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/11/thom_andersen_eduardo_souto_de.php

so, nu film showing in Queens on the 12th:

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2013/01/12/detail/reconverso-reconversion

i saw it, 'sgood but i like pretty much everything he does

Fresh new rip of it on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvOyAdrDB0

Ignore the rip and other Youtube versions. The movie is being remastered to HD and will be screening in a new cut by the end of the year! Should look great.x

i've seen this about five times; it's so great.

haha I totally didn't mean to put a kiss at the end at that post, but y'all deserve it. They don't come cheap, at least not from me.

Oh and get bent and other Angelenos can get a first look at new version next month - http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/los-angeles-plays-itself-8

wow, neat. surprised to see mentions of re-edits, too; I wonder how it changed.

there are worse fates than periodic cinema screenings & revivals but I feel for this guy if he's still working on it while unable to have it traditionally released/available

Sep 20, 7:30 at the Egyptian, with Andersen answering questions after.

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/los-angeles-plays-itself-8

there are worse fates than periodic cinema screenings & revivals but I feel for this guy if he's still working on it while unable to have it traditionally released/available

Maybe, but there are plenty of people making great work (feature-length or otherwise) for which this is the case. Plus, the original version played like every month at the Aero in Santa Monica and was usually sold out. There are a few edits and the intermission has been moved up, but mostly the idea of this new version was to replace the crusty VHS images with better-quality material.

Saw new version today. Congrats on the remastering, admrl!

I know I specifically visited Angels Flight, the Bradbury Bldg and Union Station in 2011 bcz of this (and the other films I've seen them in, obviously).

Being released by Cinema Guild on DVD, though not many details.

http://laist.com/2014/07/09/the_best_documentary_about_los_ange.php

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/los-angeles-plays-itself/id913778135

"I will say that I consider my movies to be more works of history than critical works. Unlike in my written criticism, which perhaps inevitably has a narrower and more judgmental focus, in my films I’m less interested in making judgments and more interested in nonjudgmental aspects of whatever I’m dealing with. For instance, my ideas about the merits of documentary records have expanded over time to include things that historically haven’t been considered artistic. I think that something doesn’t have to be judged artistically significant to have value.

I say this while also thinking about all the things that might have been recorded but weren’t. The absence of records is inevitably an issue that comes up when one is making a historical documentary. You begin to imagine all these sources that you would have liked to draw upon. Right now I’m interested in making a film about the Austrian architect Rudolph Michael Schindler, who built many homes in Los Angeles after immigrating here in 1920. So far as I know, there are neither extant moving image records of him nor audio recordings of his voice available today, and it would be wonderful if such records existed."

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/recreation-thom-andersen-discusses-his-films

yeah, i read that interview, it was excellent. looking forward to seeing reconversåo.

the muybridge film is fantastic, but oddly it begins with an incongruous (to my ears) quote from chairman mao! ah, the 70s.

new/old doings in NY

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45881

just saw a screening. great stuff! makes me love movies I already love even more (Blade Runner, Chinatown, Kiss Me Deadly) and got me interested in so many more. wish I could have gotten this guy's opinions of the last 15 years of politics, movies and LA

I feel like I need to study this. I've been watching a lot of movies, but the scope of the films represented here makes me realize how meager my film knowledge is

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