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Post by naterdawg on Jul 14, 2017 20:28:49 GMT
I like movies within movies, like Singin' in the Rain. Just thought I'd let you know.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2017 21:35:22 GMT
An interesting category, in fact; I frequently appreciate the cleverness of stories-within-stories, including movies-within-movies.
Can we compile something of a list?
The Bad and the Beautiful is a definite favorite of mine; I frequently saw the "spiritual sequel," Two Weeks in Another Town, which I didn't like quite as much.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 14, 2017 21:53:12 GMT
Hail, Caesar! has several films in it.
The Exorcist has a scene in which a film is being shot. (A friend is in it!)
Boogie Nights depicts some porn films being made.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2017 22:07:18 GMT
OK, swell:
Movies-within-movies
The Bad and the Beautiful ('52)
Two Weeks in Another Town ('62)
The Exorcist ('73)
Boogie Nights ('97)
Hail, Caesar! ('16)
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 14, 2017 22:13:45 GMT
HITCHCOCK -- about the making of 'Psycho'
THE SHOOTIST -- shows John Wayne's character's earlier life through the Duke's earlier films (RED RIVER and RIO BRAVO among others).
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Post by naterdawg on Jul 14, 2017 22:15:43 GMT
There's more, I'm pretty sure.
Movie, Movie - 1978, starring George C. Scott
SOB - 1981, starring Julie Andrews
The French Lieutenant's Woman - 1981, starring Meryl Streep
What a Way to Go - 1964, starring Shirley McLaine
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2017 22:22:12 GMT
The Bad and the Beautiful ('52)
Two Weeks in Another Town ('62)
What a Way to Go ('64)
The Exorcist ('73)
The Shootist ('76) (*though I was intending for a film about the making of, or at least including the making of, a fictional film*)
Movie, Movie ('78)
SOB ('81)
The French Lieutenant's Woman ('81)
Boogie Nights ('97)
Hitchcock ('12)
Hail, Caesar! ('16)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2017 22:34:02 GMT
Submitted for your consideration Nalkarj . The Player The Purple Rose of Cairo Sunset Boulevard Sullivan's Travels Citizen Kane (they are making a newsreel, yes ?) Gods and Monsters Saving Mr. Banks The Buster Keaton Story Man of a Thousand Faces |
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Post by teleadm on Jul 14, 2017 22:34:45 GMT
The Lavender Hill Mob, Alec Guinness is already caught when he tell the story
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2017 22:36:56 GMT
Nalkarj forgot about: The Stuntman
and going with the idea of a story within the story The Princess Bride has scenes of a book being read outloud and interaction between Grandpa and the boy that interrupt the movie itself.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2017 22:39:09 GMT
Thanks, Bat!
Citizen Kane ('41)
Sullivan's Travels ('41)
Sunset Boulevard ('51)
The Bad and the Beautiful ('52)
The Buster Keaton Story ('57)
Man of a Thousand Faces ('57)
Two Weeks in Another Town ('62)
What a Way to Go ('64)
The Exorcist ('73)
The Shootist ('76)
Movie, Movie ('78)
SOB ('81)
The French Lieutenant's Woman ('81)
The Purple Rose of Cairo ('85)
The Player ('92)
Boogie Nights ('97)
Gods and Monsters ('98)
Hitchcock ('12)
Hail, Caesar! ('16)
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 14, 2017 22:39:37 GMT
OK, Salzmank -- I will adjust.
TRUMBO
GUILTY BY SUSPICION -- blacklisted director DeNiro works on a Western that looks suspiciously like HIGH NOON.
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE -- Streep is working on a cop movie
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 14, 2017 22:40:55 GMT
Adding BATouttaheck and teleadm 's suggestions... Citizen Kane ('41) Sullivan's Travels ('41) Hold Back the Dawn ('41) Sunset Boulevard ('51) The Lavender Hill Mob ('51) The Bad and the Beautiful ('52) The Buster Keaton Story ('57) Man of a Thousand Faces ('57) Two Weeks in Another Town ('62) What a Way to Go ('64) Movie, Movie ('78) The Day of the Locust ('79) The Stunt Man ('80) SOB ('81) The French Lieutenant's Woman ('81) The Purple Rose of Cairo ('85) Postcards from the Edge ('90) Guilty by Suspicion ('91) The Player ('92) Boogie Nights ('97) Gods and Monsters ('98) Hitchcock ('12) Trumbo ('15) Hail, Caesar! ('16) EDITED for mattgarth 's suggestions... (Thanks, Matt!) |
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Post by mattgarth on Jul 14, 2017 22:43:53 GMT
HOLD BACK THE DAWN -- director Mitchell Leisen finishes a scene from I WANTED WINGS with Brian Donlevy, and then listens to Charles Boyer's narration.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 14, 2017 22:53:33 GMT
Brief Encounter 194?, now that I think of it. Celia Johnson with her super boring husband thinks back on those thrilling days with Trevor Howard
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 14, 2017 23:22:47 GMT
My favourite, a brilliant and very clever film within a film would have to be the French movie ...
Trans-Europ-Express (1966) Alain Robbe-Grillet
The location/setting is the Trans-Europ Express itself (Paris to Antwerp), Embarking on the journey are a group of filmmakers. a writer-director (played by Robbe-Grillet himself), his producer and the production secretary armed with typewriter. The team discuss a thriller they want to make and see the great possibilities on-board this train setting. As they chat we cut to another traveller on the express. We now shift to inside the movie they’re talking about and we see a drug-smuggler on his way to Antwerp to collect a shipment of cocaine...
The filmmakers now set in motion a series of re-workings of what we have just seen onscreen.
From now on the two parallel worlds of the film itself, its characters and authors, and a different or parallel narrative space interweave and collide as the filmmakers constantly change their minds as continuity and other issues arise rewriting on the run...
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 14, 2017 23:38:57 GMT
Some real movies within movies:
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - The angst-ridden trio of Clyde, Bonnie and C.W. go to see Gold Diggers Of 1933 to take their minds off the bank teller Clyde's just killed.
Caprice (1967) - Industrial spy Doris Day goes to a theater and sees Caprice, starring Doris Day (which gives an idea of the meager level of the film's cleverness).
The Last Picture Show (1971) - And that show is Red River.
Earthquake (1974) - When the big one hits, Victoria Principal is in a theater watching High Plains Drifter.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2017 23:50:40 GMT
The Last Action Hero Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.
Much better than it's given credit for being. Many in-jokes that "the kids" just don't quite catch! It's really a fun movie and it does have a movie within the movie ! Nalkarj
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 14, 2017 23:55:32 GMT
Public Enemies (2009)The agents only know that there are two possible theaters Dillinger could be going to: the Biograph Theater, which is showing the Clark Gable gangster film Manhattan Melodrama, or the Marbro, which is showing the Shirley Temple movie Little Miss Marple.(sic) Ultimately, it is the former theater.
Dunno if they actually show them watching the film. I love the Christie oops in the IMDb user write-up ! 
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 15, 2017 0:04:23 GMT
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Blow Out (1981)
Ed Wood (1994)
State and Main (2000)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
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