![]() ![]() Police stations, the suburbs and even the lost dirt roads all impose themselves as threatening but it’s the famously beautiful Griffith conservatory, which was recently the locale of a literal dance among the stars for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. The ultimate and original disaffected youth tale pits James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo against the unfriendly dystopia of an L.A. ![]() In one famous sequence, PTA orchestrates a mass sing along in which the ensemble are in synch to Aimee Mann’s Wise up yet totally secluded from one another and it just shouldn’t work, but you just know it does. Whether it’s dealing with the sins of the father, addiction, or religion, PTA keeps his sad subjects locked in darkened bedrooms, solitary manor houses, self-help concert halls, parked cars and even game show studios which he turns into remote hideaways. Like Michael Mann, Paul Thomas Anderson’s affinity for The Big Orange is hardly discreet and you could make a case for a number of his films to feature on this list, but it’s his vast study of tragedy in the San Fernando valley that is perhaps PTA’s most accurate portrayal of loneliness and despair in the famous city. Beautifully symmetric, brutalist and even nondescript when it needs to be, Mann’s metallic labyrinth is a flawless setting for De Niro and Pacino’s legendary cat and mouse chase to the death. While Heat is not the only Mann film to act as a bittersweet love letter to Los Angeles (2004’s Collateral could have easily made this list with its gorgeously grey metropolitan glow) Heat stands above the rest with its almost hyper stylised, post-modern take on the famous city. that doesn’t look utterly sumptuous, or even recognisable, in Michael Mann’s crime tour de force. isn’t all pastel colours and Emma Stone, here are ten movies which really get under the dirty nails of the City of Angels.īeach house apartments, coffee shops, hotels, the sprawling undergrowth, freeways there isn’t a part of L.A. But it wasn’t always so pretty, and just as a reminder that L.A. ![]() back into the spotlight in cinema once again. ![]() By Christopher Burns – With its irresistible take on Hollywood, music and bittersweet romance, La La Land is more than likely about to sweep the board at the academy awards and thrust L.A. ![]()
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