Drives through Lost L.A.
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.
Morgan Neville
Director, Writer
Harry Pallenberg
Director, Writer

Joan Didion
self

James Ellroy
self

Buck Henry
self

John Milius
self

David Hockney
self
Gene Norman
self
Frank Wilkinson
self
Elaine Young
self
Mike Davis
self
Los Angeles Plays Itself76%
Sherman's March65%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Class of ‘9271%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Above Majestic73%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Voyeur59%
Harmontown66%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
For the Love of Spock73%
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye71%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
180° South72%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Room 23761%
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life64%