22 Best Movies About Cinema
There are few things Hollywood loves more than movies about craftsmanship, which isn’t surprising: movies are rarely part-time jobs, and no doubt it’s like the world for many. Since the early days of the industry, Hollywood has been something of an old-style corporate city where people live and breathe the work of filmmaking, so of course there are tons of films about cinema. It’s amazing how many good ones there are.
From the very beginning, the film industry has been a hotbed of gossip and scandal, but most of these films are not about that. More broadly, they are about the creative process, and that’s where we start caring. They are sometimes cynical about the true intentions of seemingly gifted artists, or about how capitalism restricts art and stifles voices that actually have something to say—fears that are hardly limited to the film industry. It’s been over a century since the birth of movies, and they’ve become such a part of our lives that movies about movies, when done right, end up feeling like movies about life.