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'.
Inserts (1975)
6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright
In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more
Inserts (Blu-ray) (1975)
6.3/10
Director: John Byrum
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jessica Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright
In the golden days of silent films, genius director Boy Wonder (Richard Dreyfuss) is king of the silver screen. But when talkies take over Tinseltown,... Read more
Irma Vep (1996)
7/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard
This dig at French film-making stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a faded auteur, who having seen Maggie Cheung in some Hong Kong action flicks, casts her as... Read more
Ivans xtc (2000)
Director: Bernard Rose
Starring: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, James Merendino, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Lisa Enos
Based on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', this remarkable film by Bernard Rose, stars Danny Huston, (son of John), as a powerful Hollywood agent... Read more
JCVD (2008)
7.2/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem
Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more
JCVD (Blu-ray) (2008)
7.1/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem
Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)
5.4/10
Director: Vadim Jean
Starring: Martin Short, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins, Elizabet...
Martin Short is Jiminy Glick, a corpulent star-struck celebrity interviewer spawned as a character on Saturday Night Live, then given his own show on... Read more
Kate Plays Christine (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Kate Lyn Sheil
This mesmerising meta-documentary from innovative US filmmaker Robert Greene follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil (The Color Wheel, House of Cards) as she p... Read more
Kirk Douglas: Lust for Life / The Bad and the Beautiful / Young Man with a Horn / Before I Forget (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Jeff Kanew, Michael Curtiz, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Dick Powell, Doris Day, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner...
Kirk Douglas Box Set. 'Young Man with a Horn' (1950) - Trumpeteer Douglas' talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs, but his search fo... Read more
Living In Oblivion (1995)
7.5/10
Director: Tom DiCillo
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
This wrenching but comic look at independent film-making shows a young film-maker forced to ponder the inevitable question: Can anything be worth goin... Read more