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Recommend Movies about Making Movies


Or similar topics, thx in advance

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Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
Almost all of Brian DePalma's films are also (obliquely) about making movies...

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ed wood is brilliant, have to check out living in oblivion, thanks

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"The Bad and the Beautiful"
"Singin' in the Rain"
"Sunset Boulevard"

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love sunset boulevard, havent seen bad and beautiful yet, thanks.

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both brilliant and my favorites , thanks

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White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)

A almost forgotten Eastwood film. A semi true- biography about director John Huston filming in Africa "The African Queen", and his obsession with hunting.

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Yes, this is the one I was going to recommend.

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thanks for this, will check it out if i find it

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Godard's Contempt
8 1/2
Hugo
Shadow of the Vampire
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Mulholland Drive
The Day of the Locust

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seen them all except for the last tycoon, couldnt find that one on any streaming platform

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Currently free on Amazon Prime. DeNiro and Robert Mitchum, directed by Kazan.
Also, neglected to put The Big Knife on the list. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino and Rod Steiger, directed by Robert Aldrich.

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thx :)

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SPOILER

I was trying to think of that title.

LOVED that movie, esp. when Palance's character finally confronts Steiger's. The latter's reaction, then Palance's re-reaction are priceless. A master class in body language.

The ending is powerful, too.

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Silent Movie
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Bowfinger
Adaptation.
State and Main
Chaplin
S.O.B.
Burden of Dreams
My Best Fiend
Body Double
Day for Night
American Movie
Hearts of Darkness
The Big Picture
Lost in La Mancha

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nice selection thanks, adaptation might be the best in that list of the ones ive seen.

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Sullivan's Travels may be my favorite such film, though movie-making isn't the main thrust of the film.

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (it's a bit about making movies)
Stand-In

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