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Film Edited by Brittany Martin timeout.com/los-angeles/film @britt_m


Hollywood stars


For decades, cinema’s most legendary directors have trained their lenses on our dazzling city and its central industry. By Brittany Martin


IN THIS WINTER’S La La Land, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star as up-and- comers trying to make their way in Hollywood—he as a jazz musician, she as an actress. The musical romance follows the characters as they struggle to maintain a relationship amid the complicated ups and downs of a career in show business. Call it meta—or maybe a little self-involved—but since the earliest days of cinema, moviemakers have loved to turn the camera on themselves to make films about films. From the glamorous to the seedy, movies about Hollywood have become enduring reflections of the industry with which Los Angeles, for better or worse, is most associated. Here are a few moments when it’s worked best.


A Star Is Born In the classic Hollywood tale, a young


woman with big dreams is still just waiting tables when she’s discovered by a man with his own demons who brings her into the


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game. Filmed in 1937 (before being remade in 1954 with Judy Garland and again with the forthcoming 2017 update starring Lady Gaga), the screenplay had the wry touch of author Dorothy Parker to keep the satire sharp.


Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Campy, exploitative, over the top—in


other words, a perfect encapsulation of a Born to Be Blue


particular version of Hollywood—this 1970 satire was penned by no less a film expert than Roger Ebert. In the musical, an all-girl rock band follows its dreams to L.A. where the group brushes up against stardom, and then things go very wrong for all involved.


Born to Be Blue In La La Land, Gosling plays a jazz


musician trying to get a big break. In 2015’s Born to Be Blue, Ethan Hawke plays real-life jazz musican Chet Baker, darling of the L.A. sound, trying to make a film as part of an attempted comeback after addiction and violence sidelined his musical career.


Get Shorty The 1995 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s


novel follows a mobster heading out to L.A. to collect a debt, only to end up pitching his own life as a concept for a movie. The result? A film-within-a-film featuring Harvey Keitel and a plot that suggests


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