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  • Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède

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    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…

  • True Romance

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    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.

  • Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

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    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.

  • New Nightmare

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    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.

  • Ed Wood

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    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.

  • Salaam Cinema

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    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.

  • Leaving Las Vegas

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    Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

  • State and Main

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    A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

  • Cut

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    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…

  • RKO 281

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    In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.

  • Shadow of the Vampire

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    Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film “Nosferatu.”

  • Speaking of Buñuel

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    Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative,…

  • Urban Legends: Final Cut

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    The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost – even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.

  • Scream 3

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    While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

  • The End of Violence

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    In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

  • Wag the Dog

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    During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President’s adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

  • Cannes Man

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    Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation…

  • Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

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    Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For his male model, he hires Gabriel, a young waiter on whom he has developed a serious crush. While Billy is openly gay, Gabriel says that he is straight and even claims…

  • Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

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    Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: ” Die Vatikankiller”. With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon…

  • Full Tilt Boogie

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    A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

  • Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s

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    In 1995, Chasen’s closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There’s an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher,…