Steve Martin’s tribute to shoestring filmmaking and big-screen dreams is a loving lampoon that gamely straddles the chasm between cynical con-artistry and benign innocence.
Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor costar in the Technicolor classic that has been hailed as the greatest American musical ever made. It placed in the number 10 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
Whether or not Youseff Chahine’s autobiographical ‘Alexandria’ trilogy are the greatest films of his career, they are in many ways his crowning achievement: his love letter to the cinema he loved so much.
Two British schoolboys in the early 1980s shoot their own sequel to ‘First Blood’ with a video camera and a lot of imagination in this loving comedy from Gareth Jennings.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family in the adult film industry of the late 1970s.
John Travolta delivers his best performance as a movie sound technician who inadvertently records a murder in this beautifully directed conspiracy thriller.
This 1995 documentary, cowritten and codirected and hosted by Martin Scorsese, is one of the most passionate and informative explorations of classic American cinema.
