Ten great movies about movies

A contentious list, possibly:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/ten-great-movies-about-movies.html

Followed up with another ten personal favourites.

 

The Lost Squadron (1932) starring Joel McRea. WWI pilots get jobs as stunt pilots in Hollywood. There is a scene in this pre-code film that shows a pilot flipping his middle finger at another pilot during one of the sequences.

 

Did that exist as a dis back then?

 

Evidently, as that is the intent in the scene.

 

How about this one?

 

The full list:

Behind the Screen - Charlie Chaplin, 1916

The Player - Robert Altman, 1992

Peeping Tom - Michael Powell, 1960

8 ½ - Federico Fellini, 1963

Le Mépris (Contempt) - Jean-Luc Godard, 1963

Singin’ in the Rain - Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare - Wes Craven, 1994

Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-liang, 2003

Hellzapoppin’ - HC Potter, 1941

Maps to the Stars - David Cronenberg, 2014


some additions:

Truffaut's Day for Night

Sturges' Sullivan's Travels

Wilder's Sunset Boulevard

Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautful

De Sica's After the Fox

Zieff's Hearts of the West

Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio

Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo

Hazanavicius' The Artist

Rush's The Stuntman


The movies I'd personally pick would have to include Singin' in the Rain, Sunset Boulevard, and The Artist, all of which are very interesting films on a lot of different levels. Ironically for me, they all concern silent movie actors who have problems making the transition to the sound era.

 

Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo 1995)

 

Ed Wood
Barton Fink
Swimming with sharks
Cecil B Demented

 

Terror In The Isles

 

The French Lieutenant's Woman

 

Not a great one, but...

 

King Kong 1933, 2005

 

I worked on that one for about a month in 1984, and I wouldn't consider it to be a movie about movies per se -- it's a clip documentary with short bits from about 100 different horror & action/drama films.

 

Ed Wood was just wonderful. Loved that movie back then. Swimming with Sharks was pretty much my Hollywood experience in a nutshell.

Good stuff as usual from the Friday Night Boys -- I think Peeping Tom is kind of a stretch, though. That's like saying Silence of the Lambs is about the textile industry.

 

Hugo

The Roger Ebert review.

 

You beat me to it by one minute! One of my favorite movies and a
masterful tribute to Georges Melies.

 

La Signora senza Camelie [Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953]

 

My first thought when I saw the thread title.

 

This one - kinda...

 

The Last Movie (1971)

 

Get Shorty?

 

Cinema Paradiso

The Stunt Man would have been in my top 10. Probably right after 8 1/2

 

Mel Brooks' Silent Movie

 

A lotta great nominees, that's for sure!

For me -

Singin' In The Rain
Sunset Boulevard
Ed Wood
The Camerman
Barton Fink
King Kong (1933)
Behind The Screen (1916)
The Bad & The Beautiful
The Artist
Sullivan's Travels