Sidewalk Cinema
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
directed by Thom Andersen
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Annie Hall is a movie about two marquees: Messiah of Evil v. The Sorrow & The Pity. This one is how you think about directors you don't like - Cassavetes and "happiness is the only truth - so he drank himself to death" - or directors you do - Hitchcock the low tourist who only used a Los Angeles location once. The European high tourists loved the desert west of town, and Blade Runner is the great Los Angeles love letter.
Thom Andersen should hate the French, but he loves them for loving Jerry Lewis. "We live in the past" because "what surrounds us is not new." Or just how you think about the world: "A job can break your heart, too." So can a girl, and so can movies, and so does this one.
directed by Thom Andersen
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Annie Hall is a movie about two marquees: Messiah of Evil v. The Sorrow & The Pity. This one is how you think about directors you don't like - Cassavetes and "happiness is the only truth - so he drank himself to death" - or directors you do - Hitchcock the low tourist who only used a Los Angeles location once. The European high tourists loved the desert west of town, and Blade Runner is the great Los Angeles love letter.
Thom Andersen should hate the French, but he loves them for loving Jerry Lewis. "We live in the past" because "what surrounds us is not new." Or just how you think about the world: "A job can break your heart, too." So can a girl, and so can movies, and so does this one.
posted by NPK at 11:15 AM
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