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leepback

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I had this feeling that scriptwriters when short of inspiration looked close to home and that was why there is a plethora of Movies and TV show centred around the production of Movies or TV shows. Funnily enough when I tried to write them down I couldn’t think of that many….writers block?

I know there are heaps more out there.
Like to add any? Maybe there’s already a list somewhere.

Movies
Barton Fink
Swimming with Sharks
Ed Wood
Living in Oblivion
Watch this Movie
Adaptation
Son of Rambow
Big Picture (Kellar42)
The Player (Mark Harris)
The Fall Guy (Mark Harris)
Zak & Miri Make a Porno (DeepFocus88)

TV Shows
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Frontline
Drop the dead donkey
Extras
30 Rock
Moving Wallpaper
Chandon Pictures
Taking the Flak
Entourage (Kellar42)
 
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Sunset Blvd.
The Player
All About Eve(Technically about theater, but same idea)
Hooper
The Fall Guy( DESTINED FOR A RE-BOOT!!!!! )
 
Mark Harris said:
Sunset Blvd.
The Player
All About Eve(Technically about theater, but same idea)
Hooper
The Fall Guy( DESTINED FOR A RE-BOOT!!!!! )
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Mark (anybody else)

Could you say which are TV and which are movie.
I'm not familiar with them all and am too lazy a**ed to look them up.

Thanks

BTW: I might not answer for a long while as I'm just about to head off to pick up my new 7D which has finally arrived. Yippeeee!!!
 
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Sweet Liberty, feature with Alan Alda and Michael Caine.

State & Main, feature with Sarah Jessica Parker and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

The Stuntman, feature with Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback

Tropic Thunder, feature with Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.

Permanent Midnight, feature with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
 
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One is a pretty interesting experimental documentary from the '60s wherein a documentary crew documented a documentary crew, documenting the filming of a bad narrative scene, as the crew documents secret discussions behind the director's back about what it is they're doing, or whether or not he knows what he's doing (basically planning a mutiny). There's a criterion DVD available.

Contempt. Godard film about a screenwriter juggling marital problems with adapting The Odyssey, and a sleazy American film producer (played by Jack Palance) and his advances on his wife. It also features Fritz Lang playing himself directing The Odyssey.

Day For Night. Truffaut film about filmmaking. I still haven't seen it, but as long as we're making a list, I thought I'd throw that one out there.
 
Here are a few more movies:

Boogie Nights
The Aviator
Grand Canyon
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Inside Daisy Clover
Singing in the Rain

and one about making a play (just because):

Shakespeare in Love
 
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RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (feature about a feature)

The Cradle Will Rock (feature about a musical)

Meet the Feebles (feature about coke-snorting, gun-wielding muppets, putting on a stage show)
 
i have this rule if i see video camera equipment or studio or shaky reality style or documentary style in film, i stop watching.

tv reality:

on the lot
america's next producer

are there anymore reality game shows about wanna be filmmakers?
 
american movie
hooper
the last shot
reality bites
blazing saddles...sorta
love actually...kinda
and if we're allowing theater
the producers
hamlet 2
synecdoche, new york
 
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