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'.
The Fluffer (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Scott Gurney, Taylor Negron, Guinevere Turner, Debor...
Johnny Rebel is a charismatic heterosexual man who makes his living acting in gay porn. His live in girlfriend Babylon is a stripper so she understand... Read more
The Garth Method (2006)
4.7/10
Director: Gregory Pakis
Starring: Gregory Pakis, Katrina Baylis, Scott Terrill, Jamie Unicomb, Jo Buckley, Elena N...
Writer/director Gregory Pakis also stars in this nutty mockumentary about an out-of-work actor so desperate he decides to make his own film - by kidna... Read more
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
6.6/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Margot Kidder, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon,...
It's the 1920s, ex-WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is on the barnstorming circuit, performing daring aerial stunts and wildly exaggerating his... Read more
The Hunting Party (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: James Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Richard Gere, Ljubomir Kerekes, Terrence Howard
Hoping to make it back to the big time, a disgraced TV reporter (Richard Gere) recruits his old cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a naive young producer... Read more
The Informers (2008)
5/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Mickey Rourke, Austi...
Bret Easton Ellis ('Less Than Zero', 'American Psycho') adapts his own work for the screen, a characteristically chilling portrait of hedonism gone ma... Read more
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Starring: Robert Evans
Rules are made to be broken. And Robert Evans has broken them all. He was the first actor to ever run a major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures. In... Read more
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 1 (1992)
8.3/10
Director: Judd Apatow, Brent Carpenter
Starring: Megan Gallagher, Janeane Garofalo, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Rip Torn, Pe...
A landmark in '90s TV comedy, Garry Shandling is the eponymous Larry Sanders, a neuroses-laden, late-night chat show host. Along with loads of hilari... Read more
The Last Shot (2004)
5.7/10
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart, Ray Liotta, T...
After years of being on the A-List of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick) meets Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin), a p... Read more
The Last Tycoon (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Jeanne Moreau, Anjelica Huston, Theresa Russell, Ja...
Based on the unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, celebrated actor Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as ruthless motion-picture studio head M... Read more
The Moguls (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Michael Traeger
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe...
Jeff Bridges is Andy, a divorced down-on-his-luck loser who decides the way out of the doldrums is to make a porn movie! He convinces some of his sma... Read more