A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman’s Short Cuts.
Tag: movie business
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Claude Ventura’s documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel’s final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura’s documentary investigates the production of Godard’s film.
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True Romance
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
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New Nightmare
Cast and crew from A Nightmare on Elm Street are terrorized by Freddy Krueger and his razor-fingered glove as he crosses over into the real world.
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Ed Wood
The mostly true story of the legendary “worst director of all time”, who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
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Salaam Cinema
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
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State and Main
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Cut
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they’re in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director…