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It took just my first few seconds outside LAX to understand why films happened around Los Angeles. The quality of the light is astonishing. And also uncanny, because, of course, I’d seen representations of that light on film and television for my whole life. To the point, now, where I will often, near-subconsciously, appraise a film on its ability to capture that strange light, that very Los Angeles light that happens nowhere else in my experience. That light that facilitates filming but is so very hard to properly reproduce on film. A century of trying to trap that light in a can.