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Movies about Movies

Interested in the craft of film? Let these movie makers take you behind the scenes in these comedies, documentaries and dramas.

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  • A documentary about an amateur filmmaker making a movie to earn enough money to make another movie. For fans of outsider art.
    Blu-ray Disc, 2022Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Classics, [2022] — BLU-RAY 791.43023 AMERICAN
  • A postmodern adaptation of a novel that has two different endings, The French Lieutenant's Woman alternates between the novel's narrative and scenes of the cast behind the scenes.. Starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
    DVD, 2015[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2015] — DVD FRENCH
  • The greatest what-if in SciFI film history. This charming documentary about a never-filmed adapation of Dune will also appeal to fans of Star Wars and Alien.
    DVD plus Blu-ray, 2014Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] — BLU-RAY 791.4372 DUNE
  • A biopic of the classic B-Movie director Ed Wood. A great comedy about staying true to your vision, even if that vision is a bit odd. Tim Burton's best film.
    Blu-ray Disc, 2012[United States] : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2012. — BLU ED
  • Abbas Kiarostami directs a fictionalization of a documentary of an trial of an actual criminal impersonator of a film director. Where do audience, cast, and direction begin and end? One of the greatest films of all time.
    DVD, 2010[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010] — DVD CLOSE-UP
  • Spike Jonze directs this dramedy narrative of an adaptation of Susan Orlean's the Orchid Thief, starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep.
    DVD, 2003Culver City, California : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003] — ADAPTATION
  • Fan of the latest Nosferatu? Check out this about the filming of the original, which suggests the actor playing the vampire might not have been acting after all.
    DVD, 2000Toronto, Ont. : Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, c2000, 2003. — DVD SHA
  • A Coen Brother's comedy about the classic era of Hollywood, starring George Clooney.
    DVD plus Blu-ray, 2016Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2016] — BLU-RAY HAIL