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    Movies

    Big Fat Liar (2002)

    A teenager (Frankie Muniz) travels to Los Angeles after a sleazy Hollywood producer (Paul Giamatti)...

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    Baadasssss! (2004)

    Filmmaker/actor Melvin Van Peebles (Mario Van Peebles) directs the controversial movie ``Sweet...

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    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    A Hollywood director's desire to produce a film about real people and human suffering leads him on...

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    Cecil B. Demented (2000)

    A renegade filmmaker (Stephen Dorff) kidnaps a pampered Hollywood star (Melanie Griffith) and forces...

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    America's Sweethearts (2001)

    A publicist (Billy Crystal) tries to convince the press that the feuding co-stars of a new movie are...

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    This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)

    Filmmaker Kirby Dick examines the Motion Picture Association of America and the methods it uses to...

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    Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

    Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him...

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    Emerald City (1989)

    A story about a scriptwriter and his wife who struggle with the temptations of wealth and power.

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    Tropic Thunder (2008)

    A pampered actor (Ben Stiller) and his co-stars (Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.) must become actual...

  • Two Weeks in Another Town picture
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...

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    A Star Is Born (1954)

    A Hollywood star (James Mason) drinks away his career, as his singer wife (Judy Garland) becomes...

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    The Last Mogul (2005)

    Filmmaker Barry Avrich documents the life and career of Hollywood titan Lew Wasserman.

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    The Muse (1999)

    A desperate screenwriter (Albert Brooks) with writer's block meets a Greek muse (Sharon Stone)...

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    Show People (1928)

    A Southern girl (Marion Davies) comes to Hollywood, falls for a slapstick comic (William Haines) and...

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    A Star Is Born (1937)

    A matinee idol turns to alcohol in response to his wife's heightened popularity in this...

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    People

    Angelino Fons

    Angelino Fons entered the Spanish film industry as a screenwriter after graduating in film direction...

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    Safe Conduct (2002)

    Story about filmmaking under the wartime Vichy regime.

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    Welcome to Hollywood

    A film director tries to turn a young actor into a success story, but runs into many problems along...

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    Nickelodeon (1976)

    A lawyer (Ryan O'Neal) becomes a director and a roustabout (Burt Reynolds) becomes a star in 1910s...

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    The Cat's Meow (2002)

    Movie producer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes) dies after yachting with William Randolph Hearst (Edward...

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    Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque (2005)

    Friends, associates and filmmakers discuss Henri Langlois, a pioneer in film preservation and...

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    The Anniversary Party (2001)

    A couple (Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh) who have been separated for a year reunite for their...

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    A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

    A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of...

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    Snapshots

    In this experimental film, everyone enacts roles written from the player's lives; everyone plays...

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    Cannes Man (1997)

    A producer makes a bet that he can take the worst script -- entitled "Con Man" -- and get a deal for...

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    The Kid & I (2005)

    Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action...

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    Movies

    W.C. Fields and Me (1976)

    The Hollywood comedian's (Rod Steiger) story is told as recalled by Carlotta Monti (Valerie...

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    Movies

    East Side Story (1997)

    A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.

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    Hijacking Hollywood (1997)

    A young man moves to Los Angeles to be a production assistant on a feature film--"Moby Dick 2:...

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    Hurlyburly (1998)

    Three men (Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri) share a house in Hollywood, where they indulge...