Post by london777 on Jun 7, 2017 16:24:49 GMT
I posted a list of 30 odd titles on the old IMDb and asked for additions. The guys and gals sent me many more and I promised to update my list. Unfortunately I delayed too long and lost my list and their additions in the shutdown. I would like to try again.
Eligible are fictional films which show commercial films being made. It need not be the main theme but should occupy a substantial part of the movie. No documentaries otherwise the list will get too bloated. (Half the new movies out on DVD contain a short on their making). Also no home movies or non-commercial videos.
Also eligible are topics about writing screenplays so long as it gets into some detail. If a character is a novelist who hopes his book will be made into a film one day, that would not qualify.
The politics and economics of film production are OK if they are debating specific (but can be fictional) films.
I will keep updating this post with your additions, so check back to this OP to see if a film has already been entered.
Please follow IMDb for release dates and title, so if the film was released with an English title, use that. By all means add the original title as well, if different, in italic font.
Good hunting!
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8½ (1963) Federico Fellini
A Star is Born (1937) William Wellman
A Star is Born (1954) George Cukor
Adaptation (2002) Spike Jonze - screenplay by Charlie Kaufman.
All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse
American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini Sort of a documentary, but so much more.
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003) Bruce Beresford TV movie
Argo (2012) Ben Affleck
Baadasssss! (2003) Mario Van Peebles
Bad Education (2001) Pedro Almodóvar Film-making does not feature prominently.
Barton Fink (1991) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen A bit marginal this one. If it were not such a good film I would not include it.
Be Kind Rewind (2008) Michel Gondry
Big Fat Liar (2002) Shawn Levy
Blow Out (1981) Brian De Palma
Body Double (1984) Brian De Palma
Bombshell (1933) Victor Fleming
Boogie Nights (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson
Bowfinger (1999) Frank Oz
Camera Buff (1979) Krzysztof Kieslowski
Chaplin (1992) Richard Attenborough
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard
Day for Night (1973) François Truffaut The locus classicus. So autobiographical it is almost a documentary.
Ed Wood (1994) Tim Burton
Fade to Black (2006) Oliver Parker Danny Huston is unimpressive as Orson Welles.
For Your Consideration (2006) Christopher Guest
Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Howard W Koch
Free and Easy (1930) Edward Sedgwick
Full Frontal (2002) Steven Soderbergh
Funny People (2009) Judd Apatow
Get Shorty (1995) Barry Sonnenfeld
Gods and Monsters (1998) Bilo Condon
Grand Canyon (1991) Lawrence Kasdan. Film directing is prominent in one of the plots.
Hail, Caesar! (2016) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hard Core Logo (1996) Bruce McDonald
Hearts of the West (1975) Howard Zieff
Hitchcock 2012 (Sacha Gervasi) Background to the making of Psycho.
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Mitchell Leisen
Hollywood Ending (2007) Woody Allen
Hooper (1978) Hal Needham
Hugo (2011) Martin Scorsese
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) Vilgot Sjöman
I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) Vilgot Sjöman
In Bruges (2008) Martin McDonagh
In the Electric Mist (2009) Bertrand Tavernier
Inland Empire (2006) David Lynch
It's a Great Feeling (1949) David Butler
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Kevin Smith
King Kong (1933), (1976) John Guillermin, and (2005) Peter Jackson
Kon-Tiki (2012) Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
La La Land (2016) Damien Chazelle
Living in Oblivion (1995) Tom DiCillo The "Day for Night" of low-budget indies.
Make Me a Star (1932) William Beaudine
Matinee (1993) Joe Dante
Merton of the Movies (1924, James Cruze) and (1947, Robert Alton)
Miracles for Sale (1939) Tod Browning
Movie Crazy (1932) Harold Lloyd, Clyde Bruckman
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) Steve Bendelack
My Week with Marilyn (2011) Simon Curtis
New Nightmare (1994) Wes Craven
Nickelodeon (1976) Peter Bogdanovich
Night Moves (1975) Arthur Penn Film-making does not feature prominently.
Notting Hill (1999) Roger Michell
One Crazy Summer (1986) Savage Steve Holland
Real Life (1979) Albert Brooks
RKO 281 (1999) Benjamin Ross A TV movie dramatisation of the outstanding documentary "The Battle Over Citizen Kane".
Salvador (1986) Oliver Stone A fictional story about a TV news reporter. Does that count?
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) John Lee Hancock
Scream 3 (2000) Wes Craven
Seed of Chucky (2004) Don Mancini
Sex Is Comedy (2002) Catherine Breillat
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) E. Elias Merhige Fictional recreation of the making of Nosferatu (1922). Well, I hope it was fictional!
Show People (1928) King Vidor
Something to Sing About (1937) Victor Schertzinger
Son of Rambow (2007) Garth Jennings Another English director for my other thread!
Souls for Sale (1923) Rupert Hughes
State and Main (2000) David Mamet
Sullivan's Travels (1941) Preston Sturges
Sunset (1988) Blake Edwards
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
Sweet Liberty (1986) Alan Alda
Swimming With Sharks (1994) George Huang No front of camera stuff, just backroom backstabbing.
Targets (1968) Peter Bogdanovich
Taste of Cherry (2007) Abbas Kiarostami Film-making only crops up at the end, but the scene is critical. (Not that I like it).
Tetro (2009) Francis Ford Coppola Film-making does not feature prominently.
The Artist (2011) Michel Hazanavicius
The Aviator (2004) Martin Scorsese
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Vincente Minnelli
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Big Knife (1955) Robert Aldrich
The Big Lebowski (1998) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Film-making does not feature prominently.
The Big Picture (1989) Christopher Guest Before Guest hit on his spoof documentary formula.
The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Sidney Sheldon
The Cameraman (1928) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
The Carpetbaggers (1964) Edward Dmytryk
The Fall (2006) Tarsem Singh Film-making does not feature prominently.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Karel Reisz
The Girl (2012) Julian Jarrold About Hitchcock's relationship with Tippi Hedren.
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) George Roy Hill
The Jolson Story (1946) Alfred E. Green
The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) Malcolm St Clair
The Last Tycoon (1976) Elia Kazan
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) Stephen Hopkins
The Muse (1999) Albert Brooks
The Perils of Pauline (1947 George Marshall) and (1967 Herbert B. Leonard, Joshua Shelley)
The Party (1968) Blake Edwards
The Player (1992) Robert Altman
The Studio Murder Mystery (1929) Frank Tuttle
The Stunt Man (1980) Richard Rush
The World's Greatest Lover (1977) Gene Wilder
Trans-Europ-Express (1966) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story (2005) Michael Winterbottom
Tropic Thunder (2008) Ben Stiller
Trumbo (2015) Jay Roach
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Vincente Minnelli
Wag the Dog (1997) Barry Levinson About a TV campaign by a film director, but lots of tricks of the trade shown.
What Just Happened (2008) Barry Levinson. Competent director, great cast, but it fell real flat.
What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) Clint Eastwood
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Robert Zemeckis
Wired (1989) Larry Peerce
Eligible are fictional films which show commercial films being made. It need not be the main theme but should occupy a substantial part of the movie. No documentaries otherwise the list will get too bloated. (Half the new movies out on DVD contain a short on their making). Also no home movies or non-commercial videos.
Also eligible are topics about writing screenplays so long as it gets into some detail. If a character is a novelist who hopes his book will be made into a film one day, that would not qualify.
The politics and economics of film production are OK if they are debating specific (but can be fictional) films.
I will keep updating this post with your additions, so check back to this OP to see if a film has already been entered.
Please follow IMDb for release dates and title, so if the film was released with an English title, use that. By all means add the original title as well, if different, in italic font.
Good hunting!
..........................................................................................
8½ (1963) Federico Fellini
A Star is Born (1937) William Wellman
A Star is Born (1954) George Cukor
Adaptation (2002) Spike Jonze - screenplay by Charlie Kaufman.
All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse
American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini Sort of a documentary, but so much more.
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003) Bruce Beresford TV movie
Argo (2012) Ben Affleck
Baadasssss! (2003) Mario Van Peebles
Bad Education (2001) Pedro Almodóvar Film-making does not feature prominently.
Barton Fink (1991) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen A bit marginal this one. If it were not such a good film I would not include it.
Be Kind Rewind (2008) Michel Gondry
Big Fat Liar (2002) Shawn Levy
Blow Out (1981) Brian De Palma
Body Double (1984) Brian De Palma
Bombshell (1933) Victor Fleming
Boogie Nights (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson
Bowfinger (1999) Frank Oz
Camera Buff (1979) Krzysztof Kieslowski
Chaplin (1992) Richard Attenborough
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard
Day for Night (1973) François Truffaut The locus classicus. So autobiographical it is almost a documentary.
Ed Wood (1994) Tim Burton
Fade to Black (2006) Oliver Parker Danny Huston is unimpressive as Orson Welles.
For Your Consideration (2006) Christopher Guest
Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Howard W Koch
Free and Easy (1930) Edward Sedgwick
Full Frontal (2002) Steven Soderbergh
Funny People (2009) Judd Apatow
Get Shorty (1995) Barry Sonnenfeld
Gods and Monsters (1998) Bilo Condon
Grand Canyon (1991) Lawrence Kasdan. Film directing is prominent in one of the plots.
Hail, Caesar! (2016) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hard Core Logo (1996) Bruce McDonald
Hearts of the West (1975) Howard Zieff
Hitchcock 2012 (Sacha Gervasi) Background to the making of Psycho.
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Mitchell Leisen
Hollywood Ending (2007) Woody Allen
Hooper (1978) Hal Needham
Hugo (2011) Martin Scorsese
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) Vilgot Sjöman
I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) Vilgot Sjöman
In Bruges (2008) Martin McDonagh
In the Electric Mist (2009) Bertrand Tavernier
Inland Empire (2006) David Lynch
It's a Great Feeling (1949) David Butler
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Kevin Smith
King Kong (1933), (1976) John Guillermin, and (2005) Peter Jackson
Kon-Tiki (2012) Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
La La Land (2016) Damien Chazelle
Living in Oblivion (1995) Tom DiCillo The "Day for Night" of low-budget indies.
Make Me a Star (1932) William Beaudine
Matinee (1993) Joe Dante
Merton of the Movies (1924, James Cruze) and (1947, Robert Alton)
Miracles for Sale (1939) Tod Browning
Movie Crazy (1932) Harold Lloyd, Clyde Bruckman
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) Steve Bendelack
My Week with Marilyn (2011) Simon Curtis
New Nightmare (1994) Wes Craven
Nickelodeon (1976) Peter Bogdanovich
Night Moves (1975) Arthur Penn Film-making does not feature prominently.
Notting Hill (1999) Roger Michell
One Crazy Summer (1986) Savage Steve Holland
Real Life (1979) Albert Brooks
RKO 281 (1999) Benjamin Ross A TV movie dramatisation of the outstanding documentary "The Battle Over Citizen Kane".
Salvador (1986) Oliver Stone A fictional story about a TV news reporter. Does that count?
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) John Lee Hancock
Scream 3 (2000) Wes Craven
Seed of Chucky (2004) Don Mancini
Sex Is Comedy (2002) Catherine Breillat
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) E. Elias Merhige Fictional recreation of the making of Nosferatu (1922). Well, I hope it was fictional!
Show People (1928) King Vidor
Something to Sing About (1937) Victor Schertzinger
Son of Rambow (2007) Garth Jennings Another English director for my other thread!
Souls for Sale (1923) Rupert Hughes
State and Main (2000) David Mamet
Sullivan's Travels (1941) Preston Sturges
Sunset (1988) Blake Edwards
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
Sweet Liberty (1986) Alan Alda
Swimming With Sharks (1994) George Huang No front of camera stuff, just backroom backstabbing.
Targets (1968) Peter Bogdanovich
Taste of Cherry (2007) Abbas Kiarostami Film-making only crops up at the end, but the scene is critical. (Not that I like it).
Tetro (2009) Francis Ford Coppola Film-making does not feature prominently.
The Artist (2011) Michel Hazanavicius
The Aviator (2004) Martin Scorsese
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Vincente Minnelli
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Big Knife (1955) Robert Aldrich
The Big Lebowski (1998) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Film-making does not feature prominently.
The Big Picture (1989) Christopher Guest Before Guest hit on his spoof documentary formula.
The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Sidney Sheldon
The Cameraman (1928) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
The Carpetbaggers (1964) Edward Dmytryk
The Fall (2006) Tarsem Singh Film-making does not feature prominently.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Karel Reisz
The Girl (2012) Julian Jarrold About Hitchcock's relationship with Tippi Hedren.
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) George Roy Hill
The Jolson Story (1946) Alfred E. Green
The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) Malcolm St Clair
The Last Tycoon (1976) Elia Kazan
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) Stephen Hopkins
The Muse (1999) Albert Brooks
The Perils of Pauline (1947 George Marshall) and (1967 Herbert B. Leonard, Joshua Shelley)
The Party (1968) Blake Edwards
The Player (1992) Robert Altman
The Studio Murder Mystery (1929) Frank Tuttle
The Stunt Man (1980) Richard Rush
The World's Greatest Lover (1977) Gene Wilder
Trans-Europ-Express (1966) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story (2005) Michael Winterbottom
Tropic Thunder (2008) Ben Stiller
Trumbo (2015) Jay Roach
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Vincente Minnelli
Wag the Dog (1997) Barry Levinson About a TV campaign by a film director, but lots of tricks of the trade shown.
What Just Happened (2008) Barry Levinson. Competent director, great cast, but it fell real flat.
What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) Clint Eastwood
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Robert Zemeckis
Wired (1989) Larry Peerce