Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.
Overview
Before "L.A. Confidential", there was "Shotgun Freeway" -- the groundbreaking 1995 documentary about Los Angeles coming to grips with it's own history. Against a backdrop of never-before-seen archival footage, Shotgun Freeway presents a diverse group of "Angelinos" who guide the film through their own past as well as the city's. We get crime scribe James Ellroy reliving his youth as a burglar, Actor/writer Buck Henry's tour of Hollywood fakery, Jazzman Buddy Collette's trip down Central Avenue, Historian Mike Davis' tour of LA's eventual Armageddon, and writer Joan Didion's take on LA's own ephemerality. From the Beaches to the Valley, "Shotgun Freeway" will show you a Los Angeles you never knew existed.
Release date
01/03/1995
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Original Soundtrack
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Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Wattstax
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The Long Ryders: Rockin' at the Roxy
Dalya's Other Country
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
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