Get Out of the Car

United States

2010

34 Min

Color

Spanish, English

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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DP Madison Brookshire, Adam R. Levine

SOUND Craig Smith

Locarno (Out of Competition), Toronto (Wavelengths), Vancouver, Rotterdam (Spectrum Shorts), BAFICI (Trayectorias)

Synopsis

Get Out of the Car is a city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural landmarks (including El Monte Legion Stadium and the Barrelhouse in Watts). The musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey of popular music made in Los Angeles (and a few other places) from 1941 to 1999, with an emphasis on rhythm’n’blues and jazz from the 1950s and corridos from the 1990s. The music of Richard Berry, Johnny Otis, Leiber and Stoller, and Los Tigres del Norte is featured prominently. –Locarno Film Festival

Director

Thom Andersen

Thom Andersen (born 1943, Chicago) is a filmmaker, film critic, and teacher. He currently teaches film theory and history at the California Institute of the Arts, and has previously taught at the SUNY Buffalo and Ohio State University. In the early 60’s, he studied film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has also been the programmer for LA Filmforum in Los Angeles during the late 90’s. His more recent work, including Los Angeles Plays Itself, has taken its cues from Formalism. Los Angeles Plays Itself won the National Film Board Award for Best Documentary at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival. —Wikipedia

Photograph by Suzanne Mejean

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Arsaib

23Nov11

Get Out of the Car : A Commentary — Thom Andersen: (http://www.pardo.ch/jahia/webdav/site/pardo08/shared/pdf2010/GetOutoftheCar.pdf).

ruby stevens

21Nov11

a symphony of urban decay! wonderful

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Mark Ayala

4Aug11

I've been kicking myself in the ass for missing all three times it has played in Los Angeles. I can't find this anywhere and at the moment, I can't think of any films I want to see as badly as this. Any film that uses Los Tigres del Norte (hopefully non-ironically) is okay in my book.