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The Academy Museum's screening series,"Summer in the City: Los Angeles, Block by Block," shines a spotlight on hidden histories and overlooked neighborhoods in L.A. Running through the end of August, you can catch homegrown Angelenos, international filmmakers, black and white films, 80s flicks, contemporary classics and more — all set in and about L.A.
“Oftentimes when people think about Los Angeles films, they think about the Hollywood sign or the Sunset Strip,” says Patrick Lowry, a life-long Angeleno and manager in the film program department at the museum. That included highlighting not only local filmmakers turning the camera on places where they grew up, but folding in the way “outsiders” see L.A. That includes French director Jacques Demy’s, a 2006 film set in Echo Park that lovingly depicts the neighborhood while also looking at the beginnings of its gentrification. As a life-long Angeleno, “I grew up within the areas of Silver Lake and Echo Park around the time that that film came out,” Navarro says. “That really made it L.A to me.
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