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1) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywoods biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
Publisher
Do It Now
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
"It is July 2000. Richard Dutcher, who founded LDS Cinema is missing and presumed dead. Who will take his place? Peter Beuhmann, an egotistical local filmmaker, is determined to make his own feature film to be crowned the next "Mormon Spielberg." --container.
3) Love happy
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A group of poor young hopefuls tying to produce a Broadway musical become involved in a diamond theft when Harpo Marx steals to help them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the delightful farce Meeting Spencer, one of the great character actors of our time, Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested development), steps into a hilariously funny leading role. During one fateful night at Frankie and Johnnie's steakhouse in Manhattan, famed (but fading) director Harris Chappell (Tambor) plans to re-launch his Broadway career after suffering a humiliating series of flops in Hollywood.
6) Silent movie
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Brooks stars as a has-been movie director who wants to make a come-back and save his studio from being taken over by a conglomerate.
7) Nine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A film director going through a personal and professional crisis tries to overcome his problems with the help of the women in his life.
10) Ed Wood
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time. Wood was the auteur behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
11) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. Hoping to win fame and fortune, the filmmaker brings the ape back to New York City for public exhibition, with catastrophic results.
Publisher
WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
Français
Description
"Simon Cinema, a 100-year old producer/director whose memory is failing ... hires Camille, a beautiful young film student, to give his memory a daily aerobic workout and hash over pieces of his illustrious career. An array of dazzling movie stars pop in to visit and chat. His best friend is Italian ... his favorite ghosts are the Lumiére Brothers. While Camille brings joy in Monsieur Cinema's life, she also hatches a plan to con him out of his fortune....
14) Benjamin
Publisher
Artsploitation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charmingly offbeat gay romantic comedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance. Written and directed by British comedian Simon Amstell who peppers this charming, laugh-out-loud funny tale with hilariously deadpan one-liners and a scene-stealing cast of supporting characters.
15) Road to Nowhere
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is a tenuous balance between reality and fiction, particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown and mysterious young woman who bears a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story.. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue and a growing obsession...
16) Color me Kubrick
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story, John Malkovich stars as Alan Conway, an eccentric, gay outcast who convinced many that he was the reclusive director Stanley Kubrick during the production of his last film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 585
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
After movie director Niccolo's wife leaves him, he decides to make a movie about women and sets out to find a leading lady.
18) The fall guy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Series
Criterion collection volume 769
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. All he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
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