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Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.

Drives through Lost L.A.

1995★ 7.0 · 11h 31mDocumentary

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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.

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David Hockney
as self

Gene Norman
as self

Mike Davis
as self

Budy Collette
as self

Frank Wilkinson
as self

Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.

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