No red-blooded New Yorker would actually want to live in La-La Land, but that should not stop them from checking out “Paradise (Lost): Los Angeles on Film,” a new series at the American Museum of the Moving Image.

This weekend’s fare includes Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” (1944), with Barbara Stanwyck as an unhappy wife who entices an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) into a plot to kill her husband. With Edward G. Robinson as a cigar-chomping claims investigator.

There’s also Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974), featuring a never-better Jack Nicholson as dapper private eye J.J. Gittes, who uncovers a conspiracy of greed, corruption and incest. Faye Dunaway and John Huston co-star.

AMMI, 35th Avenue and 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, weekends through Aug. 1. http://www.ammi.us; (718) 784-0077.