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.
Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.
Brigitte Bardot stars in Godard’s one and only flirtation with big budget studio production with Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and filmmaking great Fritz Lang.
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.
