Sep 20, 7:30 at the Egyptian, with Andersen answering questions after.
http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/los-angeles-plays-itself-8
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
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).
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Being released by Cinema Guild on DVD, though not many details.
http://laist.com/2014/07/09/the_best_documentary_about_los_ange.php
― nickn, Thursday, 10 July 2014 07:12 (nine years ago) link
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/los-angeles-plays-itself/id913778135
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
"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
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
new/old doings in NY
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45881
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 June 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 June 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
in my head I do hear the title in the 2nd way that Eric delineated in the first post
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Needs a sequel focused on Bosch
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 14 December 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
“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?”
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
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
― nickn, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link