![]() It also provided the interior of the cinema showing Stab! In Scream 2 and the 'Feelaround' experience in John Landis’s The Kentucky Fried Movie. The Rialto is something of a screen veteran, with a major role in Robert Altman’s The Player. Built in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, its future is uncertain. Sadly you won’t currently be able to repeat the experience as the historic cinema closed its doors in 2007. ![]() When Mia – shockingly – misses a Rebel Without A Cause reference and is obliged to admit she’s never seen the 1955 James Dean classic, Seb points out that it’s conveniently showing at the Rialto Theatre, 1023 South Fair Oaks Avenue in South Pasadena. La La Land location: Seb and Mia watch Rebel Without A Cause: Rialto Theatre, South Fair Oaks Avenue, South Pasadena The pier on which Seb dances alone to City Of Lights at twilight is Hermosa Beach Pier, Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach, a few miles down the coast from Venice Beach. Almost opposite stands Retro Dairy Mart, which is where Seb sits in his car eyeing the property. The much despised ‘Van Beek Samba and Tapas’ bar that Seb desperately wants to return to its former glory as a legendary jazz dive is the empty property at 4403 West Magnolia Boulevard at North Valley Street, also in Burbank. It’s right across the street from the Warner Bros lot and therefore a bit of an industry hangout, as you can see in Ben Affleck’s Argo. The real club interior, where Sebastian ( Ryan Gosling) begrudgingly plays a delightful Christmas melody under the beady eye of the manager ( JK Simmons), is the SmokeHouse Restaurant, 4420 West Lakeside Drive, Burbank. This is simply the entrance to Muse LifeStyle group at 1648 Wilcox Avenue at Hollywood Boulevard, just to the right of the famous You Are The Star mural, which places the great stars of the Golden Age, including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, James Dean, Burton and Taylor, in rows of movie theatre seats while you – the viewer – are the star. It’s not a jazz – or any other kind of – club. It’s to the heart of Hollywood to find the exterior of ‘Lipton’s’, the restaurant into which Mia is drawn by the haunting piano music. La La Land film location: the entrance to the jazz club: Wilcox Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles Needless to say, the coffee shop has since become a feature of the tour. You can see it on the wonderful Warner Bros VIP Studio Tour, 3400 West Riverside Drive, Burbank, along with the other famous sets you can glimpse in the film, including the pillared frontage of ‘city hall’. Yes, the window opposite really was used for the ‘Paris’ flashback in Casablanca and that inspired Chazelle to add the line about Mia’s love for the film. The coffee shop on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank in which Mia ( Emma Stone) works between acting auditions is a fiction created for the movie (would the studio have a real working coffee shop in the middle of a much-used set?). The express lane freeway ramp is the same stretch of freeway used for the bus jump sequence from 1994's Speed. Both directions of the westbound carpool lane were taken over, with half of the cars facing backwards. The electrifying opening number, Another Day Of Sun, was filmed over a mere two days on the 105 Century Freeway/110 Harbor Freeway overpass, south of the city toward Compton. Damien Chazelle’s bittersweet musical romance bucks the trend for dark and gritty reboots with a mission to prove that, sometimes, they can make ‘em like they used to, with enough references to Hollywood classics to distract any movie buff from the simple plot.Īs Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said "You can’t have a better tourism brochure than this movie," – so let’s go.
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