Bonnie and Clyde has an interesting movie-watching scene.
 
The Big Knife is a good movie about the movies that no one has mentioned
yet.  As I remember it, it's the flip side of Singing in the Rain.
 
The Bad and the Beautiful is another 50s film about the dark side of
Hollywood.  And a clip from it shows up in Minelli's later Two Weeks in
Another Town, about a runaway film production in Europe.  The characters in
2 Weeks watch one of the director and the star's earlier collaborations, and
though it's not named in the film, it's The B and the B (a Minelli/Kirk
Douglas thing, like 2 Weeks).  Neat.
 
Of course, if we wanted to get into experimental films and documentaries...
 
I think the rules specified that the films we came up with had to be
primarily about movie-making.  But if the rules were relaxed a bit, we could
come up with lots of films that are not about the movies, but whose main
characters were actors or filmmakers doing something else.  Such as: The
Exorcist (Regan's mom is an actress) Dead Ringers (the love interest is an
actress) The Dead Pool (the crooks are filmmakers).
 
This game is distracting, particularly when facing a stack of undergrad
papers to grade, which probably accounts for the high volume of
correspondence on this subject.
 
 
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James Peterson
University of Notre Dame
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