Looking Glass
Overview of films
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Britney Baby – One More Time
Ludi Boeken | 82' | France | International premiere
Farcical satire on the media. Desperate film-maker makes a fake interview with Britney Spears with the aid of the transvestite Robert Stephens; winner -
The Cat’s Meow
Peter Bogdanovich | 112' | Germany | -
A murder mystery based on (some) true events in the Hollywood elite of the 1920s. With a nice Charlie Chaplin, but an even nicer Marion… -
Expulsion from Paradise
Věra Chytilová | 124' | Czech Republic | -
Committed film-maker fights many quarrels and setbacks while filming on a nudist beach. The most naked film of the festival. -
Festival in Cannes
Henry Jaglom | 99' | USA | European premiere
Stylish satire on the film business that is held together by false promises, false pretexts and false loves. An entertaining glimpse behind the scenes -
Film School Confidential
Douglas Underdahl, Douglas Leif Underdahl | 82' | USA | World premiere
Light-hearted descriptions of the experiences of five very different film-school students. About film, but also about boys and girls, birds and bees. -
The Fluffer
Richard Glatzer, Wash West | 95' | USA | -
Young unemployed cameraman falls in love with the star of a gay-porn flick. He gets very intimate with the star, but his hopes of love… -
H-Story
Suwa Nobuhiro | 112' | France | -
Béatrice Dalle stars as herself in a film of filming the Japanese re-make of Hiroshima mon Amour. Successful portrayal of an impossible attempt. -
Hotel
Mike Figgis | 110' | Italy | -
Ingenious film about making a film. An international film group goes down squabbling in a beautiful Venetian hotel. With slightly cannibalistic tenden -
Lisa Picard is Famous
Griffin Dunne | 89' | USA | -
Comic fake documentary about a nameless actress who will do anything to make her name. The film-maker hopes to record the moment of the great… -
La nuit américaine
François Truffaut | 115' | France | -
Of all films with a film in a film, this is the film of films. Classic satire on life, work and loving on a film… -
Planet der Kannibalen
Hans-Christoph Blumenberg | 90' | Germany | International premiere
In a black & white world, cartoonesque characters take up arms against nonsensical aliens. Topical satire on the battle for the ratings in the form… -
Le pornographe
Bertrand Bonello | 108' | Canada | -
Ageing ex-porn film-maker makes one more attempt in today’s high-speed porn business. With a few moments of explicit sex, but especially a fantastic J