What are your fave films about films?

[butchersapron]

The Stunt Man - total top-notch mess of a film.

Shadow of the Vampire

 

[butchersapron]

Only Inglorious Basterds which has a film within a film and much of the plot revolves around that films premiere.

I don't think quoting films is the same as films about the making of a film or a film within a film. So many modernd films quote other films, you'd have to mention an awful lot of films.

Yes, or we've have pretty much every Coen brothers effort in here.

 

[Reno]

Scorsese's directors cut of New York, New York contains a satirical fictional musical film called Happy Endings.

Inserts is a 70s drama about the amking of a 1920s porn film.

Movie Movie is about a fictional 1930s double feature.

CQ by Roman Coppola is about the makings of a 1960s Barbarella style film and a Godard style nouvelle vague film.


...als as to Tarantio: I suppose the original version of Grindhouse is about two films within a film of sorts (similar to Movie Movie in fact).

 

[Reno]

Scorsese's directors cut of New York, New York contains a satirical fictional musical film called Happy Endings.

Inserts is a 70s drama about the amking of a 1920s porn film.

Movie Movie is about a fictional 1930s double feature.

CQ by Roman Coppola is about the makings of a 1960s Barbarella style film and a Godard style nouvelle vague film.


...als as to Tarantio: I suppose the original version of Grindhouse is about two films within a film (similar to Movie Movie).

 

[Reno]

..and Scream 2 & 3 revolve around slasher films (Stab and Stab 3) based on the events that happened in the original Scream.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare is about the making of another Nightmare on Elm Street sequel.

Prix de Beauté with Louise Brooks contains a memorable finale in a cinema with a film within a film in which she stars.

Best Worst Movie is an acclaimed documentary about the craptastic Troll 2, which has aquired a devoted cult following.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

also not mentioned
king kong
be kind rewind

 

[Reno]

king kong

So obvious.

I watched the 70s version last night, which is the only version that isn't about the making of a movie.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Amazon women on the moon.

As for Tarantino, I would maybe argue that he, more than any other writer/director in Hollywood, jams as many homages and references to his favourite films as he can. His films are as much a celebration of film itself as stories in their own right. I dunno. Maybe I'm talking shite. Only on coffee #1. But yeah, Amazon women on the moon.

 

[The Octagon]

Cinema Paradiso.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Cinema Paradiso.

Can't believe I forgot that. Lovely film.

 

[DaveCinzano]

american movie

I've been trying to remember what this was called for ages. I can go and rewatch it now, cheers.

CQ by Roman Coppola is about the makings of a 1960s Barbarella style film and a Godard style nouvelle vague film.

This was a lot better than I thought it would be. Makes a nice double bill with Danger Diabolik.

Others for the list:

Zack And Miri Make A Porno
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Initially I thought about Bloody Pit Of Horror (Il Boia Scarlatto), but that's about a photoshoot not a film. Tapeheads is about making (mostly) music videos.

 

[Echo Base]

Inception. Its all about film-making.

Cobb is the Director, Arthur the Producer, Eames is the star, the Oriental fella is the money man who wants to get involved, the Indian looking fella who I cant remember is the effects man, Ariadne is the screenwriter.

Hollywood - the 'dream factory'.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Another vote for Cock and Bull Story, plus I'll see your Mulholland Drive and raise you an Inland Empire.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

not been mentioned

american movie

Classic!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Stunt Man - total top-notch mess of a film.

Shadow of the Vampire

Both good choices. I'm a big fan of The Stunt Man - hard to find people who feel kindly towards it.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Man Bites Dog

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Oh.....and Barton Fink!

 

[DaveCinzano]

How about the minor Redford flick The Great Waldo Pepper?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

What was the film in which Jeff Bridges played a writer in hollywood, maybe working on a western?

 

[DaveCinzano]

William H Macy's The Deal is a lot of fun.

 

[Reno]

White Hunter Black Heart is Clint Eastwoods film about the making of John Huston's The African Queen.

Stranger's Kiss is a fictionalised version of the making of Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss

 

[DaveCinzano]

A few more springing to mind:

Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon
The Blair Witch Project
Blow Out
Cannibal Holocaust
The Last Broadcast

About TV shows:

Run Ronnie Run
Series 7: The Contenders

 

[laptop]

The Player, natch.
Burden of Dreams - if that's the right title of a film about a Herzog film?

 

[butchersapron]

Bowfinger - the only funny Steve Martin film in the last 25 years.

 

[Reno]

Burden of Dreams - if that's the right title of a film about a Herzog film?

Great documentary. I actually find it much more interesting than Fitzcarraldo itself.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Not 'Inland Empire'.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Just because I am a fan of early Miike Takashi I will go with 'The making of Gemini'

 

[Reno]

Not 'Inland Empire'.

Certainly starts out as the making of a film

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Certainly starts out as the making of a film

I was wondering what you thought of it. A lot of people say that it is a masterpiece but I see it as a bit of a sprawling mess that had in interesting film in there somewhere that wasn't cut out of it in the editing room.

Reminds me of Gozu. Gozu is better but it could have been a utterly fantastic film if it had been edited properly. So much so I keep meaning to make my own edit.

 

[Reno]

I was wondering what you thought of it. A lot of people say that it is a masterpiece but I see it as a bit of a sprawling mess that had in interesting film in there somewhere that wasn't cut out of it in the editing room.

I agree. I'm a big Lynch fan, but that one defeated me. It starts out really intriguingly and there is some great stuff along the way (the rabbit family), but ultimately I thought it was a shapeless, self indulgent mess. Unlike all other films by Lynch, it's not particularely good looking, because it was shot on standart res video. Great performance by Laura Dern though.

I haven't seen Gozu.