With more than 200 film excerpts (Chinatown, Blade Runner, LA Confidential, Mulholland Drive among others), this unique documentary takes us through the City of Angels, between fantasy and reality. A dense and critical portrait of the sprawling megalopolis whose cinematography fabricates and deconstructs the clichés of the Hollywood dream machine.
Los Angeles all the way
Announced on September 5 on Blu-Ray and DVD from Carlotta, Los Angeles Plays Itself will be available in the original English version DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 with French subtitles, in 1.78 aspect ratio.
In addition, a short film by the director: The Tony Longo Trilogy (2014, 14 minutes), a portrait of the actor, emblematic figure of action cinema and customary in secondary roles (The Price of Power, Mulholland Drive, The Game of Revenge), the film's trailer and a 32-page booklet in which Thom Andersen immerses us in the history of the city of cinema and invites the American historian Mike Davis for a sociological approach. Indicative price: 20 euros.