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Post by london777 on Aug 26, 2018 4:14:59 GMT
What identifiable movies have we noticed within movies? That is, the characters are watching them on TV or at the cinema, etc. I hope posters will add examples from time to time, as and when they stumble on them in viewing.
Films in the public domain are frequent candidates, for obvious reasons. Also, studios like to remind us of their earlier triumphs.
In The Tamarind Seed (1974) dir: Blake Edwards, one of the characters is watching Foreign Correspondent (1940) dir: Alfred Hitchcock. He switches it off to concentrate on sex with Sylvia Syms. Good choice!
In Paris Nous Appartient (1961) dir: Jacques Rivette, the students are watching Metropolis (1927) dir: Fritz Lang. I had never heard of "Metropolis" in 1961, but I thought it looked a lot more interesting than the film I was watching.
And many times since, when watching some mediocrity, seeing within it a clip from some great film has inspired me to watch the latter again, sometimes cutting short the one I was currently viewing.
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 26, 2018 4:21:05 GMT
In Get Shorty Travolta first meets Hackman while watching Rio Bravo (or was it El Dorado) on television. Later he goes to a theatre to see Touch of Evil.
When Harry Met Sally / Play It Again Sam - Casablanca
Prometheus - Lawrence of Arabia
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Post by london777 on Aug 26, 2018 4:42:26 GMT
Later he goes to a theatre to see Touch of Evil. ... and speaks every word of the dialog before it is uttered in the movie. Very irritating for anyone else watching within earshot, but if I remember correctly, the theater was nearly empty. In The Player (1992) dir: Robert Altman, the Tim Robbins character tracks the Vincent D'Onofrio character to an art-house theater where he is watching Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir: Vittorio De Sica. Incidentally, "The Player" opens with a long tracking shot in homage to "Touch of Evil" while characters are discussing that movie. Orson Welles' films are favorites for this practice. I have seen "The Lady from Shanghai" and "The Third Man" quoted recently but I cannot remember in which movies. Other classics I have seen quoted more than once are "The Searchers" and "Double Indemnity".
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 26, 2018 4:58:11 GMT
FIELD OF DREAMS -- Costner, who has been hearing voices in the corn field, admonishes his young daughter for watching and enjoying 'Elwood P. Dowd' in HARVEY on the kitchen TV, telling her that the man is sick.
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 26, 2018 9:15:41 GMT
How could we forget? ? The Last Picture Show - Red River!
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 26, 2018 9:26:06 GMT
How could we forget? ? The Last Picture Show - Red River! And 'Lest we forget' -- FATHER OF THE BRIDE as well.
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 26, 2018 9:32:08 GMT
Guess everyone already knows the inmates in the movie The Shawshank Redemption loved watching Gilda (1946).
If I may go a bit off-topic: I am fascinated with the fictitious movie Bartholomew the Strangler that was referenced in Sabotage (1936). I hope someone actually makes a movie named Bartholomew the Strangler. The title sounds so interesting.
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Post by OldAussie on Aug 26, 2018 10:02:36 GMT
Guess everyone already knows the inmates in the movie The Shawshank Redemption loved watching Gila (1946). If I may go a bit off-topic: I am fascinated with the fictitious movie Bartholomew the Strangler that was referenced in Sabotage (1936). I hope someone actually makes a movie named Bartholomew the Strangler. The title sounds so interesting. I used this gif on the gif game on film general - my clue was "It's NOT The Shawshank Redemption".
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 26, 2018 10:26:17 GMT
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 26, 2018 10:40:46 GMT
A couple of inside jokes within inside movies:
SUNSET BLVD -- Norma screens a print of QUEEN KELLY for Joe (which was actually directed by Von Stroheim who's projecting it)
TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN -- Kirk Douglas' movie character watches himself in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (which was also directed by Minnelli a decade earlier)
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 26, 2018 12:04:26 GMT
After a bank job goes awry, Bonnie, Clyde, and CW take in Gold Diggers of 1933.
Woody Allen sees Salaam Bombay in Scenes from a Mall.
In Sullivan's Travels inmates watch a cartoon.
Woody Allen mentions The Sorrow and and the Pity in Annie Hall. Don't think we see any of the film though.
There's a quick glimpse of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance playing on a TV in Spielberg's Munich.
In Jackie Brown, Bridget Fonda watches her dad and Susan George in Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 26, 2018 12:58:15 GMT
THE BLOB (1958)
"The strange movie being shown in the theater was not a phony created for this film. It was an actual movie originally released as Dementia (1955). The scenes shown are from the re-cut version titled "Daughter of Horror", which had narration added. The voice doing the narration is that of Ed McMahon."
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 26, 2018 12:59:10 GMT
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -- Marilyn and Tom Ewell discuss the virtues of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON just before she steps onto the subway grate.
THE STRATTON STORY -- Stewart and Allyson become engaged in a movie theater and embrace until told by a patron behind them that Gable and Lana up on the screen in SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YOU do it better.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 26, 2018 13:18:09 GMT
Tsai Ming-Liang's What Time is it There? features the main character watching The 400 Blows. Jean Pierre-Leaud then turns up briefly at the end of the film.
Sticking with Tsai, his film Goodbye Dragon Inn documents a night at a cinema playing the classic martial arts film Dragon Inn which is featured quite prominently.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 26, 2018 13:21:43 GMT
Later he goes to a theatre to see Touch of Evil. ... and speaks every word of the dialog before it is uttered in the movie. Very irritating for anyone else watching within earshot, but if I remember correctly, the theater was nearly empty. In The Player (1992) dir: Robert Altman, the Tim Robbins character tracks the Vincent D'Onofrio character to an art-house theater where he is watching Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir: Vittorio De Sica. Incidentally, "The Player" opens with a long tracking shot in homage to "Touch of Evil" while characters are discussing that movie. Orson Welles' films are favorites for this practice. I have seen "The Lady from Shanghai" and "The Third Man" quoted recently but I cannot remember in which movies. Other classics I have seen quoted more than once are "The Searchers" and "Double Indemnity". Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery references the hall of mirrors sequence from The Lady From Shanghai. I think parts of it are also shown.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 13:35:07 GMT
Red River in Visconti's Bellissima (1951)
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 26, 2018 14:02:38 GMT
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Post by london777 on Aug 26, 2018 14:31:49 GMT
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). But which film is within which film? Identify please!
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Post by london777 on Aug 26, 2018 14:36:21 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 26, 2018 14:36:40 GMT
Some Naval shipboard movies:
THE CAINE MUTINY -- Bogie's 'Captain Queeg' closes down the showing of a Hopalong Cassidy Western because he wasn't informed of its screening (even though he had earlier stated that he did not want to sit through another Hoppy picture).
WING AND A PRAYER -- crew members nearly riot and attack the poor protectionist when the film breaks down right in the middle of Betty and Alice singing 'Shiek of Araby' in TIN PAN ALLEY.
MISTER ROBERTS -- Henry Fonda turns down the offer of swapping movies with another ship and misses out seeing THE SHERIFF'S DAUGHTER with Hoot Gibson.
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