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Welcome to L.A.

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Welcome to L.A. (1977)

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City of the One Night Stands.


Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer who cannot commit or love and is used by Rudolph to illustrate the loneliness inherent in big-city life. The film, featuring a haunting score by Richard Baskin, is a bit too ambitious for the beginning director. However, he gets good performances from Sally Kellerman as a lonely real estate agent, Geraldine Chaplin, as a Valley housewife addicted to taxi rides and Lauren Hutton as the mistress of a wealthy man.


Release Date: March 10, 1977 @ the Baronet, Manhattan

Distrib: United Artists


Trivia: Alan Rudolph was Robert Altmans protege. Which scene in WELCOME TO L.A. did Altman himself copy in a later film of his?

What is the irony of the 2 actresses involved in both Rudolphs and Altman's films in regard to this scene?

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