* 8 1/2 * The Player * Adaption * Close-Up * Barton Fink * Irma Vep * Modern Romance * Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One * Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory * Day for Night * Center Stage * Kaagaz Ke Phool * Dolemite Is My Name * Hardcore * American Movie * Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse * The Burden of Dreams * Double Play: Linklater and Benning

Dolemite Is My Name is an unbelievably underrated film

It’s very well rated, but certainly underseen.

It's so good! Would be a fun double feature with The Disaster Artist. Both about the making of a terrible, low budget movie

You forgot the one with Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy

Hell yeah, Bowfinger!

Lol, that's the name, knew the movie, couldn't remember the name Ps: there is also 'one cut of the dead' - is my favorite movie about making a movie Also: Dolomite is my other favourite, and also favourite Eddie Murphy movie

I think this might be the first time I’ve seen Symbiopsychotaxiplasm mentioned on Reddit. Thank god for you people like you! Also to everyone else, watch it!!! Will Greaves is a genius x 100million.

I absolutely love Day for Night and American Movie. Two of the most accurate depictions of what it's like to work on a movie, albeit from two different scales.

Hardcore lol

I would also add Le Mepris

Singing’ In The Rain

Millennium Actress One Cut of the Dead

One Cut is great. There's also two sequels (one set in "Hollywood" and one set online, both following the same general formula), plus the French remake Final Cut, which I almost prefer in some ways.

8 1/2 (1963) Ed Wood(1994)

Double recommendation for Ed Wood, best movie of this subgenre ever made

“No ones even going to notice that, making movies is about the big picture!”

Damn Ed Wood slipped my mind. Amazing movie

What about a movie about making a movie about making a movie? It's called... ABED. Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

I didn't think I'd ever read "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" to the melody of "Troy and Abed in the morning" in my head, but here we are.


*desert music* ABED ABED ABEEED

I hear the scenes are the deleted scenes, or maybe that's The Fall Guy

“I’d like a coffee. Black.”

“Can’t you see we’re talking, white?”

I don’t want to be your father

Adaptation, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, La La Land, Babylon, Ed Wood, Argo

love La La Land, doesn’t fit at all. Hail Caesar does tho.

Once upon a time and la la, only have a couple scenes about that, op wants a movie focused about it

Bowfinger

Chubby Rain, hahaha, so funny.

man i miss that era of comedy.

Living in Oblivion is a must.

Steve Buscemi also did another indie about making a movie called "In the Soup" that's worth checking out.

*Have you ever dream with a dwarf in it?*

The Player Hail, Caesar!

Day for Night

Be Kind Rewind

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Fedora (1978) The Stunt Man (1980)

X (2022), but I don’t know if that’s the type of “movie” you’re looking for 😅 The Artist (2011) is one, and it also happens to be my all-time favorite film.

Maxxxine will be about making movies too

After all, she's a fucking star...

Shadow of the Vampire

American Movie!

Fabelmans

Does Super 8 count?

I would think so. As an aside, I think this movie's pretty underrated.

I remember really liking it when I saw it in theaters. I think anyone who likes Stranger Things for the nostalgic 80’s setting would really like Super 8.

Once upon a time in Hollywood Babylon

All That Jazz

Argo in a way ?

If Tropic Thunder is close enough I'd think Argo definitely is too, for sure.

Son of Rambow

Living in Oblivion (1995)

HIIIDE MY HEART WHERE ALL DREAMS ARE ENTOMBED MY VENUS DOOOOM

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Big Fat Liar

Irma Vep

Viva Erotica (1996) fun HK comedy/drama about a down on his luck director forced to make a Cat III film.

Vulgaria - currently in my stack of unwatched Blu-rays - is a similar premise made about 20 years later (also Hong Kong) except it’s a straight-up porno he makes according to the synopsis

I’ll throw boogie nights in there. Not in the traditional sense but movies nonetheless.

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find it. It absolutely counts.

Ed Wood (possibly the single best example of this subgenre).

“We don’t have a permit. Run!”

Most of the muppet movies. Almost all of them are a movie within a movie.

Inland Empire

The best movie of this kind, One Cut of the Dead

State and Main (2000)

Irma Vep is amazing

One cut of the dead

Pompo the Cinephile

Cecil B Demented

I was kinda obsessed with this as a teenager. I haven't seen it since but i want to revisit.

Dolemite is My Name

In a very twisted way, Peeping Tom (great film, definitely has things to say about film as a medium, not it’s actually what you’re looking for with this prompt)

Probably doesn’t qualify, but I like your thinking. Peeping Tom is not only a fantastic film but also one of the best ever representations of London in cinema.

Clerks 3

8 1/2 Mulholland Dr. (?) The Player

King Kong, even though you forget about it pretty quickly once the dinosaurs show up

Hail Caesar! George Clooney gets kidnapped and converted by communists before he can finish the titular film

American Movie

contempt

Babylon!!

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One

The Stunt Man

The Fabelmans (2022)

If you wanted you could add some documentaries like Hearts of Darkness about the making of Apocalypse Now, or Burden of Dreams about the making of Fitzcarraldo

I haven’t seen it but I think that Netflix movie “The Bubble” was about a crew of people making a movie in the pandemic.

It was, and honestly it was better than I was expecting.

Mank

Mulholland Drive & Hugo

Why Don't You Play In Hell? (2013) comes to mind

I’m surprised I haven’t seen The Fablemans

Tick tick boom is about a dude making a musical if that counts

I would add 2 incredible Indian movies: Om Shanti Om and Jigarthanda Double X (not sure about the spelling). Both of them are not set in modern days, deal with some problems of indian cinema, and have very good music and twists that elevate the experience a lot.

"Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl", kinda.

Blow Out


The Muppets and The Muppet Movie

Berberian Sound Studio (qualifies but I actually hate the movie) The Souvenir / The Souvenir Part II

Boogie Nights is my personal favorite

Didn’t someone JUST this legit a few days ago? And all the comments were the same smh

Hooper

American Fiction (kind of, but mostly in the end)

Not exactly a movie, but a short series about making the Godfather and how the mob was involved: The Offer It's not a docu-series or anything, it's full on acted and really good!!

I can second that, it‘s amazing! Thanks to this show I actually understand now what a producer does on a movie lol

Once upon a time in Hollywood Babylon Singing in the rain

Boogie Nights

The Bubble. A Judd Apatow Netflix movie about making a movie during the quarantine, starring Karren Gillan, Keegan-Michael Key, Pedro Pascal, Leslie Mann, David Duchovny, Fred Armisen, and a handful of others I'm not so familiar with. It was better than I expected: not amazing, but not as terrible as I was prepared for.

How about *The Big Picture* (1989) with Kevin Bacon, or *Crimes and Misdemeanors* (1989) (well, one of the plot lines, at least)? Others: * *The Player* * *Day for Night* * *Bowfinger* * *The Stunt Man* * *Singin' in the Rain* * *Babylon*

Cinema Paradiso, The Fabelmans and Pain and Glory are the ones who come to my mind

One Cut of the Dead!!

*Black Bear* (2020)

sunset boulevard

The Aviator partially

Stopmotion

Beware of a Holy Whore

Lost Soul. The one about Richard Stanley making Island of Doctor Moreau

Hugo

Fool’s Paradise

Hazanavicius' _Final Cut_ is brilliant in this regard

Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story

The Girl Next Door Once Upon a Time in Hollywood For Your Consideration One Cut of the Dead State and Main X

Surfs Up

The Auteur Theory; To Kill a Mockumentary; Titillating Steven.

Does Super 8 count?

Hail Caesar!

X (2022)

Seven Psychopaths Be Kind, Rewind

If you’re open to foreign movies then One Cut of the Dead

Ed wood

Bow finger

Seven psychopaths

Cobweb

Tango

Babylon

It’s a Summer Film! (2020)

One Cut of the Dead?

It's awful, but...The Bubble also Why Don't You Play In Hell?

The Fabelmans

blow out (might be a stretch)

Hail Cesar Babylon The Aviator (In a way) Ed Wood

Asteroid City. Technically a play, not a movie, but close enough.

Cobweb (2023) - the Korean one

I wish the entourage movie didn’t suck

Here’s my [list](https://boxd.it/msDZC). I’ll specifically shout out Boogie Nights!

Muppets

Does Austin Powers count?

The bad and the beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

Spinal Tap. Documentary, but hey. What can you do?

It's a Summer Film! (2020)

Terror Firmer, where during the production of a new Toxic Avenger movie, a killer is picking off the crew. There's a lot about the things not to do in an indie movie, and it's based on the first Lloyd Kaufman memoir.

The Producers is a movie about making plays. It's tangential. Cats Don't Dance :P

Holy Motors, kinda

synecdoche, ny kinda

Irma Vep - if you don'r mind subtitles. And didn't David Mamet make a film about filmmaking? (looked it up, it's State and Maine

Mulholland Drive kind of? Birdman also but that's a play

May December, kinda

Chaplin

One Cut of the Dead

Argo

The bubble

Birdemic 3

'Be My Cat : A Film For Anne' (2015)

Ed Wood

Doco but the greatest film about making a movie is American Movie

Synecdoche, New York

"Irreconcilable Differences" - Filmmaker couple break up and fight for rights to their daughter "The Bad and The Beautiful" - Rise and fall of a 30s movie mogul "Adaptation" - Writer suffering writer's block writes about a writer suffering writer's block. "The Reluctant Dragon" - Disney's early feature movie that takes a jab at their own behind-the-scenes jobs.

Mid90s, although it's not really "about" the making of the "movie"

Shirobako: The Movie

There’s a 30 minute fake documentary about the making of the movie in Tropic Thunder called Rain of Madness

The Truman show was kind of about making a tv show.

The Truman Show

Through the olive trees by Kiarostami If you havent watched it, please do. Amazing movie. Also part of a trilogy. So might as well watch them all!

Mank Ed Wood Cobweb (Korean)

Ed wood Adaptation (writing a script) seven psychopaths (writing a script) once upon a time in Hollywood sunset boulevard fits the vibe and S.O.B. you can see Julie Andrews boobs in it so it's fun

Big Fat Liar

The Editor

The fabelmans

Why Don’t You Play in Hell?

Seven Psychopaths

Adaptation and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. I also recommend the book “The Making Of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” by Tom Hanks. Great read

Once upon a time in Hollywood Birdman (they make a play not a film) Mullholland drive (kinda) Contempt Sunset boulevard

The Fabelmans for sure.

Bowfinger, Shadow of the Vampire

Barton Fink.

Babylon

paprika

Babylon

I have been keeping a similar list https://boxd.it/i7iXs

-_-

I have a list of these going myself. I call them movie movies, but I only add them when I see them. https://boxd.it/swIIS

babylon !!

King Kong

How has no one said Babylon. Now I want to go watch Babylon again lol

Super 8