Movies inside movies

Elsa · #1 (**permalink**) 09-29-2009, 05:29 PM

My favorite reference to an old movie inside a recent one is in
The Apartment (1960) where the character C.C Baxter flicks channels,
a tv dinner on his lap, and gets ready to watch Grand Hotel (1932).

Off the top of my head, I know that people at the drive-in are watching
Kubrick's The Shining ("twins in the corridor/axe through the door" scenes)
when a tornado alert occurs, in Twister (1996).

Elsa · #2 (**permalink**) 09-29-2009, 05:46 PM

To maximize the possibilities, we can include "TV inside movies".

In Back to the Future, at dinner time, Marty McFly and the Baines family are watching
an episode of The Honeymooners (1955).

Elsa · #3 (**permalink**) 09-29-2009, 06:16 PM

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:

Clementine and Joel are parked outside a drive-in where they still can see the screen. They improvise goofy voice-over for Monster on the Campus (1958).

Elsa · #4 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009, 04:31 PM

Backbeat:

Stuart Sutcliffe wants a date with Astrid Kirchherr, she takes him to the pictures. She likes Cocteau and knows by heart lines from his book adaptation on screen, Les Enfants Terribles (1950).

Elsa · #5 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009, 04:37 PM

Annie Hall:

Annie and Alvy wait in line at the theater to watch a lenghty Resistance documentary, The Sorrow and the Pity (1969).

Shane · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 03:17 PM

Here are a couple:

There's the great moment in Intolerable Cruelty where Miles Massey (George Clooney) realizes he's been conned once he sees that supposed oil millionaire Howard D. Doyle (Billy Bob Thornton) is actually a soap opera actor.

And then there's Soapdish, an entire movie revolving around the backstage antics of a soap opera known as The Sun Also Sets.

moviesfan · #7 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 04:36 AM

Of all the listed by you guyz and girls I have only seen the first one The Apartment. Actually the movies get really interesting in that way.

Elsa · #8 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 04:35 PM

Until now I've only mentionned the films I've got here at home, same for this next one;
however people outside UK would harldy know about it.

When Brendan met Trudy:

The film has cult cinema references all over. Brendon is a Dubliner and a '60s film geek
who loves Nouvelle Vague (Godard, Truffaut) and American Westerns equally.

At his favourite theatre they play Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

He's seen watching scenes from his videotapes home collection.

The Producers (the '68 film)
The Quiet Man,
The African Queen,
Sunset Boulevard.

Elsa · #9 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 12:21 AM

Hannah and her Sisters:

To forget about his inevitable death, Mickey enters a cinema at random and
finds himself enjoying life again thanks to the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933).

Elsa · #10 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 06:11 PM

The Shawshank Redemption:

Gilda (1946) is the featured film that day in the jailhouse. Andy sits next to his pal Red
and starts chatting but Red says something like

"... wait, she's about to do that thing with her hair..."

Rita Hayworth makes her apparition on screen, simply saying: "... me?..."
All the blokes are clapping and whistling...

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