Film on Film

  1. smootysveen
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I love movies about movies. Here are some of the best.

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Day for Night (1973,  PG)
Day for Night 4.5 Stars
Others of Truffaut's best films charm because of their simple, contained stories. This one is broad and complex and still it has those personal touches that only Truffaut can deilver. The absolute greatest movie about making movies.
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Adaptation (2002,  R)
Adaptation 5.0 Stars
"If there was going to be a movie made about your life, who would you want to play you?" I used to think I'd answer Tom Hanks or something, but it turns out Nicolas Cage already did play me. The movie is Adaptation.
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Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.) (1950,  Unrated)
Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.) 4.5 Stars
The title says it: Wilder shows us so many of the peculiarities and rich ironies that accompany that slow dip into the horizon. The moral of the story: Life, like Hollywood, is a death trap. Get out while you're young or you'll be a reclusive, neurotic old bitch married to a monkey.
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Persona (1966,  Unrated)
Persona 5.0 Stars
Gets more astonishing every time I see it. So many layers.
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8 1/2 (1963,  Unrated)
8 1/2 4.5 Stars
Like nothing I've ever seen before
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985,  PG)
The Purple Rose of Cairo 4.5 Stars
Profoundly points out the magic, as well as the limits, of the movies.
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Le Mépris (Contempt) (1963,  Unrated)
Le Mépris (Contempt) 4.5 Stars
Is it possible for one human being to understand another human being? Can we communicate successfully? Well this film sure can. Watch it if you want to learn about life, love, humanity, making movies, etc...etc.
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Barton Fink (1991,  R)
Barton Fink 4.0 Stars
The (with a long e) most scathing critique of big time Hollywood I've ever seen. Not only is it crooked and corny as other movies have suggested, but it kills. Also some of the most refreshing dialogue I've heard in a long time.
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The Player (1992,  R)
The Player 3.5 Stars
I don't love Altman's camera, but I love his writing in this spoof on the Hollywood studio system.
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Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) (1988,  R)
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) 4.0 Stars
Too sentimental? Nah. It's impossible to be too sentimental about the cinema.
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Mulholland Drive (2001,  R)
Mulholland Drive 4.0 Stars
I may become obsessed with figuring this movie out. (And I'm not settling for the "it's all Diane's dream" explanation.)
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