Films about Filmmaking

I am studying filmmaking and have been given an assignment wherein I have to design a film festival program to be run in my local city.

The idea I have chosen revolves around introducing the local youth to filmmaking. Over a period of about two weeks, numerous films about filmmaking would be screened, while filmmaking tutorials are held and those who wish to do so would be able to learn how to use the relevant equipment and learn some of the theory behind filmmaking.

Therefore I'd like to learn of any films (good ones! and nothing R-rated) that concern any aspect of filmmaking from screenwriting to shooting to sound recording.

I don't want these films to be necessarily educational, mostly to offer even a vague insight into the industry, and overall to be entertaining and inspiring.

The films I have on my list so far are : 8 1/2, Living in Oblivion and Adaptation. Yes, it is a small list.

All help will be appreciated. Thank you.

The Bad and the Beautiful
Singin' in the Rain
Day for Night
Sunset Blvd.
Sullivan's Travels
Ed Wood (R-rated unfortunately)

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Bowfinger??

I love me some Bowfinger. Wrote a review of it about two and a half years ago in my Overlooked Movies thread. Not that it's the best example of what the original poster is looking for, but it's one of my all-time favorite comedies.

Millennium Actress (Satoshi, 2001)

Check out the existing thread, HERE.

Too bad about the R thing, because Swimming with Sharks would be a fun one.

However, this one is PG-13...


The Big Picture
1989, Christopher Guest

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So, so many. Not suprisingly, one of Hollywood's favorite subjects is itself. Not counting documentaries, where the three key behind-the-scenes must-sees are Hearts of Darkness: A FIlmmaker's Apocalypse, Burden of Dreams and Lost in LaMancha, some of the very best are...



SCREENWRITERS
Adaptation (2002)
Barton Fink (1991)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Muse (1999)
The Front (1976)
Permanent Midnight (1998)



DIRECTORS
8½ (1963)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
The Big Picture (1989)
Gods & Monsters (1998)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Ed Wood (1994)
The Last of Shelia (1973)
S.O.B (1981)
Silent Movie (1976)
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
All That Jazz (1979)



EXECUTIVES
Swimming with Sharks (1995)
The Player (1992)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Bad & the Beautiful (1952)


OTHER CREW AND HANGERS-ON
Modern Romance (1981)
Tapeheads (1988)
Blow Out (1981)
Hurlyburly (1998)
F/X (1986)
Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Cameraman (1928)


ACTORS & ACTRESSES
My Favorite Year (1982)
Chaplin (1992)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
The Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Auto Focus (2002)
Star 80 (1983)
I'll Do Anything (1994)
Frances (1982)
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Muholland Drive (2001)


THE SHOOT
Day for Night (1973)
The Stunt Man (1980)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
State & Main (2000)
Full Frontal (2002)
Mistress (1992)
...And God Spoke (1993)
CQ (2001)
Sweet Liberty (1986)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)


B-MOVIE HEAVEN & INDEPENDENT SHOE-STRINGS
Get Shorty (1995)
Matinee (1993)
Living in Oblivion (1995)
The Pickle (1993)
Bowfinger (1999)
For Your Consideration (2006)


THE WAY IT WAS (OR AT LEAST SHOULD HAVE BEEN)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Forgotten Silver (1995)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Day of the Locust (1975)


TELEVISION
Tootsie (1982)
Soap Dish (1991)
Bamboozled (2000)
To Die For (1995)
Network (1976)
Broadcast News (1987)
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Delirious (1991)
Quiz Show (1994)
"The Late Shift" (1996)
Scrooged (1988)
The Truman Show (1998)
U.H.F. (1989)


PORN INDUSTRY
Hardcore (1979)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Rented Lips (1988)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Orgazmo (1997)



ABSOLUTE WORST EVER, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WATCH
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1997)


Obviously a lot of those categories are going to have overlap, but I was trying to mix up the lists a bit, to show the wide variety out there. And those are just the good to great ones. There are lots more, and dozens where a Hollywood type or types figure in subplots but aren't the main focus (True Romance, for example).


But your rating restriction is going to eliminate many of the best and most interesting choices there.

The Amateurs, or The Moguls (Traeger, 2005)

(although it's rated R)

Wow, Holden, that's some list. Bravo!

A stupid one I just caught on cable: Hijacking Hollywood.

Not a movie, but Project Greenlight was also interesting.

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Thanks for your help guys. That should be plenty!

Consider it ANSWERED. :P

P.S. Ed Wood, which I happened to find for cheap in a department store earlier this evening and just watched, is only M rated in Australia (perhaps should have specified this, but I didn't expect anyone to go looking up international certifications). Yay.

add Urban Legend 2 as well