Filmmaking
Filmmaking and the filmmaking process has been a favourite topic of writers and directors since the early days of this craft. Sometimes reverent, but more often irreverent, of the industry they work in, often resulting in bristling insider humour not found in rank and file productions...
Right: John Turturro stars in the Coen Brothers' brilliant 'Barton Fink'.
8 1/2 (1963)
6.5/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about... Read more
8 1/2 ( Blu-ray ) (1963)
6.5/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about... Read more
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
Andy Griffith made his stunning movie debut as Lonesome, a big ol' teddy bear whose meteoric rise to TV fame is paralleled by his plunge into booze, s... Read more
A Film With Me In It (2008)
6.7/10
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
Starring: Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Amy Huberman, Keith Allen
Out-of-work actor Mark is having a rubbish day, but just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, people start dying in his apartment. As one fa... Read more
A Star Is Born (Blu-Ray) (1976)
7.7/10
Director: Frank Pierson
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson are the leads in this third version. A talented wife whose star is on the rise quickly overshadows her husband... Read more
A Star Is Born (Garland) (1954)
7.8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
The restored version of this masterpiece. Directed by George Cukor this classic musical drama about the doomed marriage of an entertainer whose career... Read more
A Star Is Born (Gaynor) (1937)
7.8/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, Adolphe Menjou
Marvelous drama about a self-destructive actor and the young movie hopeful he marries. Fredric March and Janet Gaynor are at their best in this origin... Read more
A Star Is Born (Streisand) (1976)
7.8/10
Director: Frank Pierson
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson are the leads in this third version. A talented wife whose star is on the rise quickly overshadows her husband... Read more
Actress (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Brandy Burre
When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense p... Read more
Aim High in Creation! (2013)
7/10
Director: Anna Broinowski
A revolutionary documentary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, with a groundbreaking experiment at its h... Read more