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SEE: POINT BLANK. Often imitated, never equalled. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, a documentary by LA resident and film nut Thom Anderson. It is both a metacommentary on filmmaking fashions and on the changing character of the city itself as reflected on the silver screen. You'll walk away from the documentary with a laundry list of films to see, and a strange urge to live in LA. I now want to see the black neo-realist films of the 1970s: BUSHMAMA, KILLER OF SHEEP and BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS. The only people who seem to film LA from anywhere other than the Hollywood Hills are minority filmmakers. I'm also going to have to seek out some of the Hispanic-directed films set in LA: EXILES, AMERICAN ME, and EL NORTE.
LISTEN: Iron Bridge's "Essex Boyz". Real McKenzies' "Mainland". Douglas' "Skip". Soul Coughing's "Idiot Kings". Symposium's "Disappear".
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KILLER OF SHEEP is astonishingly great.
EL NORTE is astonishingly long.
I just saw that KILLER OF SHEEP is scheduled to come out as an R1 DVD in April.
Coincidentally enough.
Ooh, thanks, Matt! I'll be ordering KILLER OF SHEEP when it comes out, then.
By Alex de Campi, at 6:25 PM
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