So what are the best films about film making?
The Player has to be one of them but I think Mulholland Dr. is better. Any other suggestions for candidates?
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The Bad and the Beautiful
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Fellini's "8 1/2"
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Next year the man with the hat returns!
The Stuntman
Living In Oblivion
Boogie Nights and, the sublime, post modern
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story.
"How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?"
honourable mention for 'adaptation'.
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Certainly The Player is at my #1 post following very closely by La Nuit Americaine ( Day For Night) .I have the second one last night,and it was a brilliant,light French comedy about how actors personal lives can destroy a movie, posing the eternal question if life is better than cinema.Truffaut's alter ego choses cinema over life.
You have mentioned Sunset Boulevard (one of my favorite films of all time) and Swimming With Sharks ( a very good film, Spacey's first indication of brilliance) but I don't know if they fit in this category ,especially the second one (it's about movie business , but I don't think the movies focus on that).Ofcourse it's my all tiem favorite Cinema Paradiso ,but again it's not about filmaking.
The Player and Sunset Blvd come to mind.
shareNobody mentioned yet All About Eve, which would fit in the category, I believe; although I prefer Sunset Blvd., which definitely IS about filmmaking (among other things, of course, one of them being an excellent noir film). In fact, Sunset has many similarities with The Player. One of them is the cameo of several Hollywood (former) stars (Buster Keaton, Cecil De Mille...). There are not 65 as in The Player but then maybe it was the first major movie to present this type of cameos.
8 1/2 is excellent too.
Another good movie concerned with the process of filmmaking is The Barefoot Contessa, with Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart.
Blazing Saddles.
The silent movie.
The Player.
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