Shotgun Freeway
Drives through Lost L.A.
1995-03-01 | 91 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
LA 92
-
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
-
Blake and Gwen: Now and Then
-
Touched by Gold: '72 Lakers
-
The Decline of Western Civilization
-
When We Fight
-
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
-
Wattstax
-
Rize
-
The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down
-
Alien Endgame
-
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
-
Flipside Video Fanzine Number 1
-
She Is Us: The Story of Judge Songhai Armstead
-
Round About Hollywood
-
East LA Interchange
-
One Six Right
-
The L.A. Riots: 25 Years Later
-
Dalya's Other Country
-
Out of Print