In this interview, noted film critic and historian David Thomson, author of Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick (producer of "Gone with the Wind") talks about how Hollywood has created the "life-like," a level of reality different from but partaking of both "real" life and the fictions that are projected on the screen in films.
Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts derives its title from Los Angeles' great East-West thoroughfare along the ridge top of the Santa Monica Mountains and delves comprehensively and originally into the intangible spirit of the movies' produced in its shadow.