Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003

A detailed and biased cinematic study of how Hollywood has systematically turned Los Angeles into a stamped postcard view. Its author, Tom Andersen, using almost no footage of his own, and contenting himself with an impressive collection of films somehow associated with the "City of Angels," has created a movie that is beautiful from every angle. It is a documented history of one city, a reflection on the origins of cinema and the reasons for its existence in its current form, and a three-hour epigram on Hollywood....