If there’s one subject moviemakers like the most, it’s themselves — particularly the specific insanity that grows around the making of a movie.
Some of the greats have made movies about making movies: Billy Wilder with “Sunset Blvd.,” François Truffaut with “Day for Night,” the Coen brothers with “Barton Fink,” Clint Eastwood with “White Hunter Black Heart,” Robert Altman with “The Player,” Tim Burton with “Ed Wood” and many others.
With James Franco directing and starring in “The Disaster Artist” — a wild look behind-the-scenes at the making of “The Room,” arguably the worst movie of the 21st century — opening Friday in Salt Lake City theaters, it’s worth a look at seven more movies about moviemaking at its craziest and most exuberant.