do you guys ever look for movies within movies. Movies that the characters watch in a film. For instance some of the ones I like are

* Audrey Hepburn dancing around in the raquetball court in Sabrina, which is on the TV in Tom Cruise's apartment during the opening of Vanilla Sky.

* The yee-haw scene from Red River as Timothy Bottoms and Jeff Bridges are watching it in the theater in The Last Picture Show.

* In Gremlins before they come crashing into the house with the bulldozer, they're watching It's a Wonderful Life. Also in Gremlins when they're all in the theater singing "hi-ho, hi-ho!" watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

* In What's Eating Gilbert Grape the family is sitting around the front room watching Montgomery Clift barely escape death in The Indiscretion of an American Wife.

I really loved how in "Adaptation," they had the scene where Charlie Kaufman was on the set of "Being John Malkovich" and everything was just like the movie with all the same actors dressed and made up the same and the same sets and everything. It was great.

I really love how so many "movies" are shown in so many other movies, but before I recognize those, let me mention:

In "Sullivan's Travels", the Mickey Mouse short.
In "Back to the Future", the Honeymooners' episode.
In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the alleged Dodgers/Yankees World Series.

Oh!!! Along the lines of kd, in "Gods and Monsters", all the flashbacks to the making of "The Bride of Frankenstein" are incredible.

I'm going to check back in when I have a humongous list for the actual topic, but before I go, technically, the lovely Audrey was dancing on a tennis court.


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I sorta lied.

What about "Tol'able David"(1921) shown in "Girl Shy" and "The Tingler"?
The TV ads heard but never seen for "Grand Hotel" in "The Apartment".
The depiction of the filming of "Samson and Delilah" in "Sunset Blvd."
All the radio shows and ads heard in "A Letter to Three Wives".
Later, Gators.

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I liked all the T.V. spots in "Total recall", especially the World series in Japan with the two Japanese teams competing. Veerhoeven does this a lot in his movies, notably "Robocop" and "Starship troopers".

I like how everyone in "Twin Peaks" is addicted to the soap opera "Invitation to Love." Damned funny...

Well this isnt a real movie yet, but maybe someday Quentin tarantino will make a vietnam movie , like the one seen in True Romance called "
Coming home in a body bag"

"Hellraiser" in "Basic Instinct".

Camille in Annie

...I have always wanted to watch Camille since it was showcased in Annie. It seemed to show the end and give it all away, but it intrigues nonetheless. Also in the recent Academy Awards they listed all the previous winners for some award (I forget which one) and I recognized the scene from Camille that was in Annie. I had no idea it was an Academy Award winner. And now I really would like to watch it. Does anyone recommend it?

A funny and nicely made movie within a movie movie is Soapdish (1991) that actually has more of the movie within the movie as a special feature on the DVD. Sally Field and Kevin Kline along with the director and scriptwriter have created a almost realistic pretend world of television soap opera that is shot both as the daily soap and as the world that encompasses the making of the soap opera.

I liked the soap on Tootsie.

"That is one nutty hospital."

CQ (2001) is a movie starring Jeremy Davies [of Lost (2008 television series), Dogville (2003), Solaris (2002)] as a writer who is directed to replace the fired director of a science movie he wrote. The movie within a movie is actually campy but with a decent ending in itself.

"The Wizard of Oz" playing in the theater in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" was one of the most beautiful moments in film!

It's obviously not a movie, but what about Seinfeld. The filming of the TV series Jerry as a subplot is pretty interesting.

Curb Your Enthusiasm does the same type of thing.