Walking In L.A.

List creator: Lastcrackerjack Created on: April 20, 2006 - 6:30 PM PDT Description: The best of Los Angeles on film

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)			Not Rated
Billy Wilder's classic satire on Hollywood and how the desperation of a failed movie career can be murder.
	The Long Goodbye (1973)
Robert Altman reinterperted Philip Marlowe as a bumbing dick who had slept through 20 years of far-out change in L.A.
	Chinatown (1974)
L.A. wasn't the only metropolis built on corruption, murder and immorality, but it is vividly explored in this 1930s detective picture made with 1970s technology.
	Valley Girl (1983)
The Valley is the Valley, Hollywood is Hollywood and never the two shall meet, except in this totally awesome teen comedy set against the punk scene.
	Repo Man: Special Edition (1984)
Suburban alienation, auto repossession, punk rock and extra terrestrials in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu. Yep, only in L.A.
	L.A. Story (1991)
Steve Martin explores L.A.'s quirks and eccentricies with greater insight and affection than even Woody Allen was able to.
	Short Cuts (Criterion Collection) (1993)
Raymond Carver's dysphoria brilliantly illustrates the lives of the Angelenos who could actually be in line with you at Ralph's.
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
Not in New York, not in Chicago, only in L.A. would you find Jack Rabbit Slim's or discuss the definition of a "pilot".
	The Big Lebowski (Collector's Edition) (1998)
The Dude would never, ever go bowling in Boston, the Bay Area or anywhere but Los Angeles. His clueless cool is L.A. through and through.
	Collateral (2004)
Hitman commandeers a taxi driver's evening, questioning the emptiness of L.A. as they travel through it, one contract killing at a time.