10 films about films, which is your favourite? I do love a bit of Singing in the Rain. I'd be interested to see how Maps to the Stars compares in its representation of film making! Very different issues i'm sure.
Can't help but feel there are a few classics missing... but I can't put my finger on what.
The most beloved of all screen musicals is also the most scholarly – a mock film-historical piece about the travails of a silent cinema star, Don Lockwood (Kelly), struggling to make the transition into the talkies. Some of the film’s choicest humour is, a little cruelly, at the expense of lofty diva Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen, priceless), Lockwood’s co-star in the preposterous The Duelling Cavalier, whose aura is destroyed by her Noo Yawk accent (“I cyan’t stan’im!”). Kelly and Donen’s classic, and the industry crisis it depicted, were paid due homage in Michel Hazanavicius’s brilliantly tricksy silent pastiche The Artist (2011).
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/01/the-10-best-films-about-films-fellini-cinema
