FILMS ABOUT FILM

By: Kenji

Man with a Movie Camera

In year order. My addition on the subject. Some of my lists are of personal favourites to promote, others like this are inclusive ones towards a library on various topics, and hopefully of use. Suggestions welcome.

Missing from the site:

What Price Hollywood?
For the First Time (Cortazar)

See also Apursansar’s list From the Life of the Film Directors, which goes much further into that subject than i do

• 01
  The Cameraman's Revenge
  Wladyslaw Starewicz
• 02
  Zapata's Gang
  Urban Gad
• 03
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 04
  The Cameraman
  Edward Sedgwick
• 05
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 06
  Heartbeat
  Marcel Pagnol
• 07
  Eisenstein in Mexico
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 08
  You Ought to Be in Pictures
  Friz Freleng
• 09
  A Star is Born
  William A. Wellman
• 10
  Sullivan's Travels
  Preston Sturges
• 11
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 12
  The Magic Box
  John Boulting
• 13
  Bellissima
  Luchino Visconti
• 14
  The Star
  Stuart Heisler
• 15
  This Is Cinerama
  Merian C. Cooper
• 16
  The Bad and the Beautiful
  Vincente Minnelli
• 17
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 18
  The Lady Without Camelias
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 19
  The Barefoot Contessa
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 20
  A Star Is Born
  George Cukor
• 21
  The Big Knife
  Robert Aldrich
• 22
  Paper Flowers
  Guru Dutt
• 23
  Peeping Tom
  Michael Powell
• 24
  Two Weeks in Another Town
  Vincente Minnelli
• 25
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 26
  La ricotta
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 27
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 28
  The Pornographers
  Shôhei Imamura
• 29
  The Hero
  Satyajit Ray
• 30
  The Epic That Never Was
  Bill Duncalf
• 31
  David Holzman's Diary
  Jim McBride
• 32
  Innocence Unprotected
  Dušan Makavejev
• 33
  Cinema Novo
  Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
• 34
  Film, Film, Film
  Fyodor Khitruk
• 35
  Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
  William Greaves
• 36
  Reconstruction
  Lucian Pintilie
• 37
  A Shooting Day
  Borislav Sharaliev
• 38
  Fellini: A Director's Notebook
  Federico Fellini
• 39
  The Last Movie
  Dennis Hopper
• 40
  About L'argent
  Jean Dréville
• 41
  Beware of a Holy Whore
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 42
  Bang Bang
  Andrea Tonacci
• 43
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 44
  Day for Night
  François Truffaut
• 45
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 46
  Black Rose Ascension
  Tatsumi Kumashiro
• 47
  Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
  Kaneto Shindô
• 48
  The Last Tycoon
  Elia Kazan
• 49
  Nickelodeon
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 50
  Bhumika: The Role
  Shyam Benegal
• 51
  Screen Tests
  Jerzy Domaradzki
• 52
  Twenty Days Without War
  Aleksei German
• 53
  Agarrando pueblo
  Carlos Mayolo
• 54
  Man of Marble
  Andrzej Wajda
• 55
  The Little Godard to the Production Board for Young German Film
  Hellmuth Costard
• 56
  Filming 'Othello'
  Orson Welles
• 57
  Cornell, 1965
  Larry Jordan
• 58
  Camera Buff
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 59
  Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
  Jiří Menzel
• 60
  There in Buknaičiai
  Rimantas Gruodis
• 61
  Stardust Memories
  Woody Allen
• 62
  Bomba Star
  Joey Gosiengfiao
• 63
  The Metaphor
  King Vidor
• 64
  The Stunt Man
  Richard Rush
• 65
  In Search of Famine
  Mrinal Sen
• 66
  A Visit to Ogawa Productions
  Jun'ichiro Oshige
• 67
  Notre Dame de la Croisette
  Daniel Schmid
• 68
  Hotel Room
  Mario Monicelli
• 69
  Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die – A Film About Pier Paolo Pasolini
  Philo Bregstein
• 70
  Sequences
  Alexandru Tatos
• 71
  Passion
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 72
  The State of Things
  Wim Wenders
• 73
  Satyajit Ray
  Shyam Benegal
• 74
  Burden of Dreams
  Les Blank
• 75
  Lulu in Berlin
  Richard Leacock
• 76
  I Lived, But...
  Kazuo Inoue
• 77
  Unknown Chaplin
  Kevin Brownlow
• 78
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  Woody Allen
• 79
  Fellini's Intervista
  Federico Fellini
• 80
  A King and His Movie
  Carlos Sorin
• 81
  A Man in Love
  Diane Kurys
• 82
  Good Morning, Babylon
  Paolo Taviani
• 83
  Law of Desire
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 84
  Bantsuma: The Life of Tsumasaburo Bando
  Shunsui Matsuda
• 85
  A Tale of the Wind
  Joris Ivens
• 86
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 87
  Les ministères de l'art
  Philippe Garrel
• 88
  Alexandria, Again and Forever
  Youssef Chahine
• 89
  In Search of Guru Dutt
  Nasreen Munni Kabir
• 90
  The Icicle Thief
  Maurizio Nichetti
• 91
  Parlons grand-mère
  Djibril Diop Mambéty
• 92
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 93
  White Hunter Black Heart
  Clint Eastwood
• 94
  The Cinema and the Wind and Photography
  Hartmut Bitomsky
• 95
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 96
  Lyrical Nitrate
  Peter Delpeut
• 97
  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  Fax Bahr
• 98
  Once Upon a Time, Cinema
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 99
  The Player
  Robert Altman
• 100
  Venice/Venice
  Henry Jaglom
• 101
  Chaplin
  Richard Attenborough
• 102
  Visions of Light
  Arnold Glassman
• 103
  Center Stage
  Stanley Kwan
• 104
  Death Train
  Bill Morrison
• 105
  Dear Diary
  Nanni Moretti
• 106
  Ed Wood
  Tim Burton
• 107
  Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
  Mika Kaurismäki
• 108
  Through the Olive Trees
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 109
  Ulysses' Gaze
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 110
  Living in Oblivion
  Tom DiCillo
• 111
  Lumière and Company
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 112
  Salaam Cinema
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 113
  Get Shorty
  Barry Sonnenfeld
• 114
  A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
  Martin Scorsese
• 115
  The Celluloid Closet
  Rob Epstein
• 116
  Carl Th. Dreyer—My Métier
  Torben Skjødt Jensen
• 117
  A Trick of Light
  Wim Wenders
• 118
  Workers Leaving the Factory
  Harun Farocki
• 119
  Irma Vep
  Olivier Assayas
• 120
  Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
  Stanley Kwan
• 121
  A Moment of Innocence
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 122
  Opening Day of Close-Up
  Nanni Moretti
• 123
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 124
  Boogie Nights
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 125
  The Mirror
  Jafar Panahi
• 126
  In the Presence of a Clown
  Ingmar Bergman
• 127
  Abel/Asia
  Asia Argento
• 128
  The Girl of Your Dreams
  Fernando Trueba
• 129
  Gods and Monsters
  Bill Condon
• 130
  Wind with the Gone
  Alejandro Agresti
• 131
  April
  Nanni Moretti
• 132
  Vigo: Passion for Life
  Julien Temple
• 133
  All About My Mother
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 134
  Clouds of May
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 135
  One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
  Chris Marker
• 136
  The Blair Witch Project
  Daniel Myrick
• 137
  Bowfinger
  Frank Oz
• 138
  Enzo, Domani a Palermo!
  Daniele Ciprì
• 139
  Cecil B. DeMented
  John Waters
• 140
  Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
  Bahman Farmanara
• 141
  CQ
  Roman Coppola
• 142
  My Voyage to Italy
  Martin Scorsese
• 143
  Scream 3
  Wes Craven
• 144
  Mysterious Object at Noon
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 145
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 146
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 147
  The Jang Sun-Woo Variations
  Tony Rayns
• 148
  Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
  Pedro Costa
• 149
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 150
  Speaking of Buñuel
  José Luis López-Linares
• 151
  Raymundo: The Revolutionary Filmmaker's Struggle
  Ernesto Ardito
• 152
  Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo
  Gunnar Bergdahl
• 153
  Fassbinder In Hollywood
  Robert Fischer
• 154
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 155
  Lost in La Mancha
  Keith Fulton
• 156
  Safe Conduct
  Bertrand Tavernier
• 157
  A Film by Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu
  Emre Akay
• 158
  The Name of a River
  Anup Singh
• 159
  Shadow of the Vampire
  E. Elias Merhige
• 160
  Fast Film
  Virgil Widrich
• 161
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 162
  The Dreamers
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 163
  Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque
  Jacques Richard
• 164
  Bad Education
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 165
  Making of Moolade
  Samba Gadjigo
• 166
  The Aviator
  Martin Scorsese
• 167
  Why (Not) Brazil?
  Laetitia Masson
• 168
  I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
  Vicente Ferraz
• 169
  My Dad Is 100 Years Old
  Guy Maddin
• 170
  Le filmeur
  Alain Cavalier
• 171
  Fuck Cinema
  Wu Wenguang
• 172
  Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
  Michael Winterbottom
• 173
  Al'lèèssi... Une actrice africaine
  Rahmatou Keita
• 174
  Worldly Desires
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 175
  The Five Obstructions
  Jørgen Leth
• 176
  Et Brigitte créa Bardot
  Benjamin Roussel
• 177
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 178
  Waiting for Pasolini
  Daoud Aoulad-Syad
• 179
  Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
  Alain Fleischer
• 180
  Fantasma
  Lisandro Alonso
• 181
  Dimmer
  Kim Sam-ryeok
• 182
  Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
  Nader T. Homayoun
• 183
  Slipstream
  Anthony Hopkins
• 184
  The Marker Variations
  Isaki Lacuesta
• 185
  Tony Manero
  Pablo Larraín
• 186
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 187
  Our Beloved Month of August
  Miguel Gomes
• 188
  Wild Blood
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 189
  Shirin
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 190
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 191
  Michael Haneke - My Life
  Gero von Boehm
• 192
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 193
  Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
  Serge Bromberg
• 194
  April 31st
  Victor Cubillos
• 195
  I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
  Richard Shepard
• 196
  Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  Craig McCall
• 197
  John Boorman: A Portrait
  Philippe Pilard
• 198
  Volta
  Ryan Mullins
• 199
  Harishchandrachi Factory
  Paresh Mokashi
• 200
  Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Moves
  Simone Lainé
• 201
  Road to Nowhere
  Monte Hellman
• 202
  Sharunas Bartas: An Army of One
  Guillaume Coudray
• 203
  A Letter to Elia
  Martin Scorsese
• 204
  Miwa: A Japanese Icon
  Pascal-Alex Vincent
• 205
  A Useful Life
  Federico Veiroj
• 206
  Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
  Peggy Stern
• 207
  Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  Pip Chodorov
• 208
  The Peddler
  Lucas Marcheggiano
• 209
  Cut
  Amir Naderi
• 210
  The Suspended Vocation
  Raúl Ruiz
• 211
  Oki's Movie
  Hong Sang-soo
• 212
  Boro in the Box
  Bertrand Mandico
• 213
  Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema
  Margarida Cardoso
• 214
  Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
• 215
  Chantrapas
  Otar Iosseliani
• 216
  Kurosawa's Way
  Catherine Cadou
• 217
  The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius
• 218
  Actors Work
  João Canijo
• 219
  Bon vent Claude Goretta
  Lionel Baier
• 220
  100 Years Hollywood: The Carl Laemmle Story
  Kai Christiansen
• 221
  Woody Allen: A Documentary
  Robert B. Weide
• 222
  Eden
  Daniel Blaufuks
• 223
  The Story of Film: An Odyssey
  Mark Cousins
• 224
  The Camera That Changed the World
  Mandy Chang
• 225
  Correspondence: Jonas Mekas - JL Guerín
  José Luis Guerín
• 226
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 227
  My Week with Marilyn
  Simon Curtis
• 228
  It May Be That Beauty Has Reinforced Our Resolve – Masao Adachi
  Philippe Grandrieux