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DESCRIPTION:With introduction by guest curator Courtney Stephens\n\n\nDir. 
 Thom Andersen. 2003\, 169 mins. Digital projection. An astonishing work of
  both cinematic and architectural history\, Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Pl
 ays Itself is a comprehensive and idiosyncratic valentine to the city’s re
 al and fantasy geographies\, the mirror-cities that are in a slippery and 
 constant state of play with one another. Andersen uses hundreds of film cl
 ips to trace his incisive grievances: that the city’s modernist architectu
 ral heritage has been consistently denigrated\, cast often as villains’ la
 irs. That shots of the downtown skyline get overused relative to its actua
 l centrality. And he has special ire for those who foreshorten the name to
  L.A.\, as we do in this series title. As a city that unfurled in tandem w
 ith the motion picture industry\, its topography and neighborhoods were co
 nsistently documented\, so that fictional spaces become real records of er
 asure and change. The film was completed in 2003 but its release was notor
 iously delayed based on film clearances. As Andersen said in a recent publ
 ic appearance\, “the way movies foreclose the possibility of emancipatory 
 politics has not changed.”—Courtney Stephens \n\n\nTickets: $15 ($11 senio
 rs and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Mus
 eum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order ti
 ckets online.(Members may contact members@movingimage.us with questions re
 garding online reservations.) \n\n\nTicket purchase includes same-day admi
 ssion to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticketing polic
 y here. For more information on membership and to join online\, visit our 
 membership page. \n
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LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room
SUMMARY:Los Angeles Plays Itself
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