20 Best Movies About The Movies Of All Time
8. Mulholland Drive
It is hard to boil down a complex masterwork like David Lynch's Mulholland Drive into a few choice words as it encapsulates so many ideas so well. After an aspiring actress moves to Hollywood, she comes into contact with a woman who loses her memory after a car crash. Together, the two of them search for clues as to what happened in a story that is peak Lynch.
Originally conceived as a TV pilot then later reworked into a film, David Lynch brings his trademark eccentricity and madness to a film that is a wonderful fever dream of pure insanity.
Mulholland Drive is about a lot of things but one clear theme is the desensitisation that this industry inflicts on the young people that enter it. It also has worthwhile things to say on obsessions with fame and those that have it.
It is hard to categorise a film that breaks so many genre conventions such as this but Mulholland Drive's commentary on the devouring nature that the film industry can have on impressionable people is worth watching.