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    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...

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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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    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)

    A teenager who has cerebral palsy gets the chance to star in an action movie with an out-of-work...

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    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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    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 recent film-school graduate (Henry Thomas) encounters low wages, tyranny and blackmail in an...

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    Hurlyburly (1998)

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

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    New Suit (2003)

    A man (Jordan Bridges) incites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood when he spreads the word about a...

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    Just Write (1998)

    A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.

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    The Day of the Locust

    An art director in the 1930's falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite...

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    Jugineun Iyagi (2004)

    Three very modern adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Two old-time pulp writers get together to...

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    Festival in Cannes (2002)

    An American actress (Greta Scacchi) as well as an aging icon and her estranged husband gather for...

  • How It All Went Down picture
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    How It All Went Down (2003)

    Based on a true story, an aspiring Vancouver filmmaker finances his dream by turning to drug...

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    Chump Change (2004)

    A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A....

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    Double Dare (2005)

    An exploration of the successes and constant struggles of two Hollywood stuntwomen--both facing a...

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    Some Nudity Required (1998)

    A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate...

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    Ellie Parker (2005)

    An actress (Naomi Watts) tries to hold her life together as she struggles to carve out a career in...

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    The Other Hollywood

    A revealing trip into the adult film industry, and the lives of those behind it, reflecting American...

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    Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment (2000)

    The history of 'cinema verite' or 'cinema direct,' as it was known in France, is explored through...

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    The Celluloid Closet (1996)

    Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman look at the depiction of homosexuality in film. Lily...

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    Encounter in the Third Dimension (1999)

    A large-format 3D movie about the history of 3D film takes place at the fictional Institute of 3D...

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    Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966)

    This hilarious monster mess from the makers of the Godzilla series (including director Inoshiro...

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    Avant la Bataille

    In this historical documentary by director and writer Janusz Kijowski, the Jewish actor Simon...

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    75 Years of Cinema Museum

    Henri Langois almost single-handedly preserved the film heritage of France--and the world--from...

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    50 Years of Action!

    One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film...

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    Harlow (1965)

    A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde...

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    Alexandria, Again and Forever (1991)

    A director's estrangement from his favorite actor forces him to reassess his life and career.