Highest rated movie: Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
Lowest rated movie: The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Thom Andersen? Cinafilm has a total of 61 reviews across 2 movies directed by Thom Andersen.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 73%.
Los Angeles Plays Itself is Thom Andersen's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 58 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Thom Andersen is The Thoughts That Once We Had, with a score of 66% based on 3 reviews.
Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and --- ------- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.
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