FILM: Metamorphosis. Or how to turn a mythical city into, like, a real place Los Angeles Plays Itself Thom Andersen 169 MINS, NC

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: December 12, 2004| Author: Jonathan Romney | Copyright information

In Thom Andersen's documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, the world's most photographed city does indeed play itself - and various other places, including Switzerland and China - and when it's not in front of the cameras, it's auditioning for bit parts. Every inch of Los Angeles, it seems, is perpetually plugging itself, just as wannabe actors place ads of eagerly smiling mug shots: Andersen shows us nondescript buildings, blank walls, patches of wasteland, all with notices announcing their av...

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