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Jacques Demy’s Model Shop (1969): The “Baroque Geometry” of Los Angeles in the 1960s

June 9, 2020

“I reckon LA as the noisiest, the smelliest, the most uncomfortable and most uncivilized major city in the United States. In short, a stinking sewer. . . .”1 – Adam[…]

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Los Angeles Cinema and the Utopia of La La Land

May 4, 2017

Few movies have represented LA with such fawning reverence and nostalgia as La La Land. The filmmakers depict a clean, spare, elegant city, sluiced in mid-century Technicolor, consisting almost exclusively[…]

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