The meta quartet

Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:00:00 +0000

In Hollywood, apparently, enough is never enough. Once again, the entertainment industry has turned its cameras on itself with a rash of "flickpics" about the industry ("Bowfinger," "The Muse," "Being John Malkovich"). Salon's show-biz spies have turned up a few more movies about movies currently in development.

"The Blair Pitch Project"

In this low-budget shockumentary, four film students take their cameras onto a studio lot to investigate a mysterious "green light" and to scare producers with their pitches. The terror on the face of one executive is unbearable as a student proposes "a four-hour-long dramatization of Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' in IMAX." Warning: Audiences have been made queasy by the jerky, suddenly shifting responses of the studio executives.

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The meta quartet