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This is the Best Film about The Film Industry


Period.

Sunset Blvd is pretty good too, but that is more about the Film Noir genre with a Hollywood setting.

Any other suggestions?

Don't Say Stuntmen or The PLayer either, thanks.

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In a Lonely Place, which also stars Gloria Grahame, is a great movie about just how low screenwriters are treated, and the compromises they have to make for their art. But it's so much more than an anti-Hollywood movie. Just watch it.

I was born when she kissed me
I died when she left me
I lived a few weeks while she loved me

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Two Weeks in Another Town that was also directed by Minnelli and starred Douglas from '62 was pretty good too.

I'm here, Mr. Man, I can not tell no lie and I'll be right here 'till the day I die

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Obviously not as in depth as this I think Get Shorty shows a pretty good and honest look at the film industry.

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The 1989 Christopher Guest movie "The Big Picture" with Keven Bacon was a great satire of the Hollywood scene. Like any good satire, there was a lot of truth in it.

Martin Short is also in it playing a very strange (but possibly typical) agent.

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