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'.
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp
A tantalizing memorial to what could have been, 'Lost in La Mancha' offers a frank, often hilarious and frequently painful account of some of the disa... Read more
Man About Town (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Mike Binder
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel Ball, Mike Binder, Erica Cerra, John Cleese, Gina Gershon, A...
Jack (Ben Affleck) is a top Hollywood agent whose clients are driving him to despair and whose wife (Rebecca Romijn), he's just discovered, is having... Read more
Man Bites Dog (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde, Remy Belvaux
Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde Pappaert
A no-holds-barred portrait of an unashamedly brutal serial killer (played by co-director Benot Poelvoorde). This unique black comedy, shot in document... Read more
Matinee (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Cathy Moriarty, John Goodman, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz
John Goodman is delightful as a movie schlockmeister (inspired by real-life producer William Castle) who's about to preview his latest 'scare-the-pant... Read more
Mulholland Drive (2001)
8/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Ann Miller, Laura Harring, Robert Forster, Dan Heda...
David Lynch pulls out all the stops, upends all expectations, and, well, goes all Lynchian in this maniacal, mind-bending mix of Hollywood satire, fil... Read more
Mute Witness (1994)
6.8/10
Director: Anthony Waller
Starring: Marina Sudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
A mute American F/X artist working on a low-budget slasher film in Russia witnesses her co-workers seemingly making an after-hours snuff film. She is... Read more
Newsfront (1978)
7.2/10
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Bill Hunter, Bryan Brown, Chris Haywood, Don Crosby, George Kennedy, Wendy Hughe...
"Newsfront" is the story of the previously unsung newsreel cameramen, who raced to beat deadlines and dangers to capture on film, for a voracious audi... Read more
Nickelodeon (1976)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
Ryan O'Neal stars as the ambitious young attorney who decides to go into the glamorous world of filmmaking, only to discover it's filled with dirty bu... Read more
Otto; or Up With Dead People (2008)
5.3/10
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Olivia Barth, Keith Boehm, Jey Crisfar, Nicholas Fox Ricciardi, Marcel Schlutt,...
Controversial Canadian director Bruce La Bruce wowed them at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival with Otto, a gay neo-Goth zombie who hooks up with... Read more
Passion (1982)
6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Godard takes the themes of love, work and the cinema, and weaves around them an extraordinary mix of sounds and images. The plot concerns a film direc... Read more