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'.
Bowfinger (1999)
6.4/10
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Terence Stamp, Steve Martin, Heather Graham, Eddie Murphy, Christine Baranski
Steve Martin (who also wrote this) plays a down-and-out producer whose new ultra-low budget sci-fi epic "Chubby Rain" stars action super-hero Eddie Mu... Read more
Broken Embraces (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Jose Luis Gomez, Tamar Novas, Blanca Portillo, Lluis Homar, Ruben...
Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema centers on Mateo Blanco (Lluis Homar), a blind writer and filmmaker who now goes by the mo... Read more
Burden of Dreams (1982)
8/10
Director: Les Blank
Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Mick Jagger
A fascinating and chilling account of the making of Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo', a project beset by a series of disasters while shooting in the jun... Read more
Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)
3.5/10
Director: Alan Smithee
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Eric Idle, Coolio, Chuck D
Aka "An Alan Smithee Film". Eric Idle plays a filmmaker named Alan Smithee - but since that is the pseudonym directors' use when they don't want scree... Read more
Cannes Man (1996)
5.3/10
Director: Richard Martin
Starring: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard, Johnny Depp, John Malkovich,...
Set within the glitz and glamour of the Cannes Film Festival comes the wonderful farce featuring Seymour Cassel as a legendary film producer who takes... Read more
Cecil B Demented (2000)
6.2/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Adrian Grenier, Melanie Griffith, Ricki Lake, Alicia Witt, Larry...
Maverick filmmaker John Waters sets his sights on... well, maverick filmmakers with this subversive cinematic satire. Stephen Dorff is Cecil, a gun-to... Read more
Chacun Son Cinema ( To Each His Own Cinema ) (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou
Starring: Georges Babluani, Josh Brolin, Farini Cheung, David Cronenberg, Emilie Dequenne,...
33 renowned directors from around the world (many of them Palme d'Or winners) contributed to this anthology of short films to commemmorate the 60th an... Read more
Chaplin (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, M...
This biopic of the silent cinema stars life from chirpy cockney to embalmed snob is played well by Robert Downey Jr. Dan Aykroyd is Mack Sennett, Gera... Read more
Close-Up (1990)
8.3/10
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehdrad Ahankhah
Regarded as one of the greatest films of the '90s, acclaimed director Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant exploration of a misguided cinephile's attempts to... Read more
Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
Director: Brian W Cook
Starring: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E Grant, Peter Bowles, Marisa Berenson, Ly...
In the mid-'90s, Englishman Alan Conway conned many people into believing that he was reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact th... Read more