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stage fright aka best films depicting stage productions

letterboxd.cinevost.com/showdown/stage-fright/

“I thought music was noise, I thought art was bullshit, and then I realized: all the world’s a stage, including movies! This Showdown pulls back the crimson curtain to celebrate the topsy-turvy double life of actors playing characters playing other characters; the fabulous artifice of the plays-within-plays and musicals-within-films and all that jazz. So give a girl a break and pay recognition to the braves, the traveling players performing a new old play. List your top ten films that depict stage productions as part of their narrative. Let’s take Manhattan and Montreal. It’s opening night and there’s love on the ground. You can drive my car to the theater, we’ll meet at the stage door.”

  • Stage Door
  • Theater Camp
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • A Chorus Line
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Asteroid City
  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Souvenir: Part II
  • Drive My Car
  • Center Stage
  • La La Land
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • All That Jazz
  • All About Eve
  • tick, tick... BOOM!
  • Little Women
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Opening Night
  • Showgirls
  • The Red Shoes
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • 42nd Street
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  • Camp
  • Rushmore
  • The Addams Family
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • The Ladies Man
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • A Walk to
  • The Producers
  • Blame