Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A.

In SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A., filmmakers Morgan Neville and Harry Pallenberg organize the unmanageable city of Los Angeles into a tidy (if incomplete) microcosm of this sprawling land of danger and drama.

SHOTGUN FREEWAY begins with "Terra," the first of a handful of thematic categories that give the film its structure, tracing the evolution of the city from its natural aridity to artificially lush lawns. The film picks up narrative steam as it plows through "The Valley," "Music," "The Auto", and more. It culminates in "Disaster" and "Rapture," as earthquakes give way to a proliferation of spiritual movements centered in LA.

Each section explore...