los angeles plays itself

I ventured out to Grauman's Egyptian Theater (whose beautiful ceiling is pictured below) to see Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen's love letter to L.A. (He hates that abbreviation, by the way.) Andersen's voiceover narrative takes us through thousands of film clips that depict the way that Hollywood has used the landscape of Los Angeles. He'll take an architectural landmark, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown house, and show how it's been used in films from the 1930s through the 1980s, amidst numerous entertaining and informative tangents.



Later: The Ennis-Brown House is listed as one of America's most endangered historic places this year. (via blogging.la)