{"id":2633,"date":"2015-01-02T21:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T05:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2015-01-02T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T05:53:39","slug":"los-angeles-the-city-in-cinema-alien-nation-graham-baker-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, The City in Cinema: Alien Nation (Graham Baker, 1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/115830742\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><center><\/center><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\/115830742\"><br \/>\n<em>Alien Nation<\/em><\/a>, a film about extraterrestrials who arrive on Earth and struggle to integrate into American life, never won any awards for allegorical subtlety. But this otherwise by-the-book buddy cop picture does capture the texture of a certain highly unglamorous Los Angeles rarely explored on screen to this degree. As you&#8217;d expect, it also has observations to make about the historical attitude of east-coast and midwest Anglo transplants to Los Angeles toward more recent Latin American and Asian arrivals. As James M. Cain put it, \u201ctrust a foreigner who got here in 1930 to haze a foreigner who got here in 1931.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video essays of \u201c<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\">Los Angeles, the City in Cinema<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201d examine the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing \u2014 just like the city itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss <b>Portland and Los Angeles: The Cities in Cinema<\/b><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Live<\/strong> at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, January 25, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywoodtheatre.org\/portland-and-los-angeles-the-cities-in-cinema\/\">The Hollywood Theatre&#8217;s site<\/a> has tickets and all the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien Nation, a film about extraterrestrials who arrive on Earth and struggle to integrate into American life, never won any awards for allegorical subtlety. But this otherwise by-the-book buddy cop picture does capture the texture of a certain highly unglamorous Los Angeles rarely explored on screen to this degree. As you&#8217;d expect, it also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-the-city-in-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}