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'.
Pleasures and Dangers (1991)
Director: Shirley Horrocks
Profiling six contemporary female artists, internationally successful in their fields of painting, photography, filmmaking and sculpture, this documen... Read more
Postcards From The Edge (1990)
6.7/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid
Based on Carrie Fisher's best selling autobiographical novel and revolving around the caustic relationship between a mother and daughter and satirisin... Read more
Rats and Cats (2007)
5.6/10
Director: Tony Rogers
Starring: Jason Gann, Adam Zwar, Anya Beyersdorf, Paul Denny
Another pitch-black Aussie gem from the team who brought us cult hit 'Wilfred'. Darren McWarren is a one-time TV star whose career has fallen into obs... Read more
RKO 281 (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Benjamin Ross
Starring: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Roy Scheider
Learn how the greatest movie of all time was nearly never made in this acclaimed look at the creation of "Citizen Kane". Liev Schrieber stars as mercu... Read more
S.O.B. (1981)
6.4/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Julie Andrews, Larry Hagman, Loretta Swit, Marisa Berenson, Robert Preston, Robe...
In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director w... Read more
Safe Conduct (2001)
7/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Marie Gillain
Aka "Laissez-Passer". Set in German occupied France during World War II, "Safe Conduct" is based on the actual war time experiences of assistant direc... Read more
Scarlet Diva (2000)
5.2/10
Director: Asia Argento
Starring: Asia Argento, Jean Sheppard, Herbert Fritsch, Gian Luca Arcopinto
A semi-autobiographical tale from Asia Argento, daughter of the famous cult director, Dario. Asia not only directs, but stars, as Anna Battista, a ri... Read more
Search and Destroy ( The Four Rules ) (1995)
5.3/10
Director: David Salle
Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Illeana Douglas, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Jo...
A badly-in-hock nobody (Griffin Dunne) on the outer limits of show biz, schemes to obtain financing for his dream movie project, an adaptation of the... Read more
Sex Sells - The Making of Touche (2005)
4.9/10
Director: Johnathan Liebert
Starring: Mark de Carlo, Adrian Zmed, Priscilla Barnes
A world record orgy, wild sex scenes, ninjas... just a typical day at the office when you happen to work on a porn set. Director Chuck Steak (Mark DeC... Read more
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
6.9/10
Director: E Elias Merhige
Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard, Udo Kier
What if famed German filmmaker F.W. Murnau, for the sake of authenticity, hired an actual vampire to play the lead role in his classic 1922 chiller "N... Read more