Well, now I've got quite a bit of work to do. My Variety colleague Pat Saperstein, of Eating LA fame, has put together a list of 15 movies about L.A. that capture a part of the city you might know about — and it's an excellent list. No "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" here, as you know plenty about those worlds.
But I love this list, and I'm embarrassed that I haven't seen enough of them. This is amazing quarantine homework. The one I would have added, of course, is "Midnight Madness," which inspired my L.A. race, which then morphed into the The Great Los Angeles Walk!
Here are Pat's picks, and she elaborates about them here:
"The Exiles" (1961)
"Targets" (1967)
"Model Shop" (1969)
"The Outside Man" (1972)
"Shampoo" (1975)
"Up In Smoke" (1978)
"Killer of Sheep" (1979)
"Breathless" (1983)
"Repo Man" (1984)
"To Live and Die in L.A." (1985)
"Into the Night" (1985)
"Less Than Zero" (1987)
"Mi Vida Loca" (1993)
"Devil in a Blue Dress" (1995)
"The Kids Are Alright" (2010)
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Pat needs to add L.A. Story.
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