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Other movies about making movies


Hi

Can anyone recommend other movies about making movies?

So far I've seen:
Day of the Locust
The Player
The Real Blonde
Sunset Boulevard
Singin in the Rain
Living in Oblivion
Mulholland Drive
Valley of the Dolls

Thanks

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Hi

Here other movies about making movies:

Contempt (Jean Luc Godard, 1963)
Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli, 1962)
Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige, 2000)
The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976)
Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 1972) - unfinished
State and Main (David Mamet, 2000)
White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood, 1990)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges ,1941)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins, 2004)

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Good lists.

Add:

Sweet Liberty
The Deal
The Last Shot
The Big Picture

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Excellent lists...

The Bad and the Beautiful


"If it is not in the frame, it does not exist!"

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And, duh, the film that contains my chosen quote below:

The Shadow of the Vampire

"If it is not in the frame, it does not exist!"

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Inland Empire

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The Last Tycoon
Good Morning, Babylon


"I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul".... Heathcliff

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The Stunt Man (1980)
Swimming With Sharks (1994)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Be Kind Rewind (2008)

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The very best of all of them is "Day for Night" 1973.

Everyone is in the best seat.

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Body Double (not the main focus of the film, but I'd count it in)

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Also a Belgian movie called "Man Bites Dog"

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