Film, Film, Film (1968, Fyodor Khitruk)
All of Rivette’s films and most French New Wave films exuberate a love of cinema.
Close-Up. A love letter to film if I’ve ever seen one.
Film, Film, Film seems interesting.
Oh, yes, I completely forgot Close-up. How dare me?
I haven’t seen it yet but what about The Dreamers?
There’s François Truffaut’s Day For Night, a film which surrounds the making of a (fictional) film.
BAROCCO
DIRECTED BY ANDRE TECHINE
WITH ISABELLE ADJANI & GERARD DEPARDIEU
81/2
Living in Oblivion?
…and American Movie.
Has anyone seen Agnes Varda’s “A Hundred and One Nights”? Here’s a blurb from imdb:
“Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life – but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories – Monsieur Cinema’s and the young people’s life – are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.”
For me, it didn’t work entirely as a film, but it has some pretty nice moments nonetheless, and cameos/clips from just about every French star of the 60’s you can think of. It’s also the film that introduced me Leos Carax, so for that I’m grateful.
all those previously mentioned, +
Tsai Ming Liang’s ‘Face’
and Godard’s ‘Pierrot le Fou’
i’d argue that the film which which has the most complex balance of love, lamentation, and criticism of Cinema is JLG’s masterpiece: Histroire(s) du Cinema.
Be Kind Rewind
I know that Quentin Tarantino is despised by some around here, but it seems like a pretty big oversight not to mention him. Whatever you may think of his movies – they all exude a love of cinema. Movies are really his subject of his movies.
I loved Be Kind Rewind as a guilty pleasure at first viewing but after my second viewing of it, I felt indifferent and even the amateur making of the films began to seem unfunny. The humor was lost.
And A Hundred and One Nights seems like something I’ll love. Barocco, too.
Unfortunately, whenever I think of homage, I think of Quentin Tarantino.
His films do exude a love of cinema, and he does seem to know what fun means based on his favorite films. He’s like the fanboy among us who made it though I still don’t understand the hype.
Forgotten Silver
The first one that comes to mind is The Dreamers. I would say CP but I don’t want anyone to puke.
scorpiorising
I don’t know if there is already a thread similar to this so forgive me if there is.
I just watched Fast Film, the most entertaining, and at the same time most playful, short film I’ve seen so far. And it’s almost like a tribute to cinema, well, mostly Hollywood films.
And any great movies about the love of cinema, about cinephilia? Homage to cinema? And please don’t mention Cinema Paradiso or I am going to puke.
Other ones that come into mind:
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies
Irma Vep
The Dreamers
The Iron Giant
Paprika
The Spirit of the Beehive
Heart of the World
Sherlock Jr.
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Cinemania (cinephilia to the extreme, and I’m afraid I might be as excessive as they are)
And it doesn’t matter if it isn’t a tribute or homage to cinema in general but as long as it’s a movie about the love for any kind of film or film genre.