BEHIND THE LENS: FILMS ON FILMMAKING: For as long as humanity has been making movies, we have also been making movies about how movies are made. This meta-cinema gives filmmakers–famously very humble people–the ability to mythologize their own struggles, from battling with finicky actors to funding nightmares, all while showing audiences exactly how the sausage is made. It’s an excuse to air industry dirty laundry under the guise of art and a love letter to the chaos of creation. As we ring in the new year, the Roxy Theater celebrates the art of filmmaking with a lineup of the best films ever made about making films.


ED WOOD: Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films.

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