movies that talk about film making

[Jeff Bernstein]

Peeping Tom (1960)

Barton Fink (1991)

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

[Jeff Bernstein]

Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (1963)

Gable and Lombard (1976)

Mommy Dearest (1981)

Fellini's Intervista (1987)

[Jeff Bernstein]

Bombshell (1933)

Hardcore (1979)

Body Double (1984)

Celebrity (1998)

[Jeff Bernstein]

Silent Movie (1976)

The Last Tycoon (1976) : union Situations recall Oppenheimer (2023)

Rare Japanese Documentary on Spielberg filming his segment of The Twilight Zone (1982)

Harold and Lilian : A Hollywood Love Story (2015)

 

[Jeff Bernstein]

Nickelodeon (1976)

RKO 281 (1999)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

 

[Jeff Bernstein]

Godard's Contempt (1963)

Timecode (2000)

Gaspar Noe's Lux Æterna (2019)

[Jeff Bernstein]

If anyone is interested in watching the rare Spielberg documentary (which now seems to be scrubbed from the Internet), I can post it for 24 hours (I assume). BUT I'm not bothering unless I get my image capability back.

 

The historic Oppenheimer blast in months to come will appear here without a single image?

 

At one point Spielberg looks into the camera and is obviously contractually forced to say : "I am filming a segment of Twilight Zone : the Movie." Imagine his vibe there. . . . Just imagine. . . . Because that's all you can do right now. . . .

 

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein

[Jeff Bernstein]

The Extra Girl (1923)

Showgirl in Hollywood (1930)

Movie Crazy (1932)

Footlight Parade (1933)

Sitting Pretty (1933)

[Jeff Bernstein]

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Motion Picture Camera (1979)

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013)

[Eric Eader]

 

Get Shorty

And one I watched last night:   A Paris Education;   

While not about Hollywood, it is about a French Film student in Paris with allusions to Hollywood movies.  Rather slow,  monochrome digital B&W photography (as in mostly gray, not much contrasting black), monotone dialogue, but always kept me guessing as to where it was going right up to the last frame.   Interesting artistic choices and change of pace compared to Hollywood.

[Eric Eader]

 

Beloved Infidel  (1959)     A story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood,  beautifully photographed by Leon Shamroy with Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr, in Cinemascope and color.

[Marta Dias Calado]

The day of the Locust

[Mark Dunn]

Newsfront (1978).

 

[charles pappas]

Surprised no one has mentioned "Nope." That movie got into celluloid vs. video, film sizes, film cameras. 

[Eric Eader]

Four more for the list:

                                         "L.A. Confidential"   (1997)

                                          "The Star"  (1952)  with Bette Davis and (a pre-"Rebel Without a Cause'), Natalie Wood.

                                          "The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story"   2015

                                          "Boogie Nights"    (1997)    A seamier side of 'Hollywood.'

[Jeff Bernstein]

On 9/3/2023 at 12:14 PM, Marta Dias Calado said:

The day of the Locust

Wow. A jackpot answer. Congratulations.

[Eric Eader]

 

I hesitate to add this as I did not like it all, but:  "The Lonely Lady" (1983), starring Pia Zadora as an aspiring screenwriter is set in Hollywood. Therefore it qualifies. Ugh!

[Frank Wylie]

Thanhouser, "The Evidence of the Film" (1913)

 

https://www.thanhouser.org/films/Evidence.htm

[Eric Eader]

"What Just Happened"  (2008)    Directed by Barry Levinson,  starring Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, & Bruce Willis

 A LOL, yet somber comedy of trying to get a movie made.

 

[Brian Drysdale]

"Shadow of the Vampire" (2000)

Feature film about the making of Nosferatu, but has a real vampire been cast in the film?

[Jeff Bernstein]

Both De Palma and Scorsese said Scarface (1983) was about Hollywood. I think in the commentary to the film De Palma uses this point to explain Hollywood's original revulsion to the material.

[Jeff Bernstein]

"Like every Hollywood movie, on some level it was about the business."

 

Biskind, Easy Riders, ch13

[Patrick Cooper]

Singin' In The Rain (1952)

That awkward transition from silent cinema to 'talkies.'

Edited December 24, 2023 by Patrick Cooper

[Eric Eader]

 

Being the Ricardos  (2O21)

with  Nicole Kidman  &   Javier Bardem  as  Lucy and Ricky.

[Eric Eader]

 

Liz and Dick  (2012)

An attempt to portray the tumultuous lives of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.