20 Best Movies About The Movies Of All Time
18. The Artist
The only Best Picture winner that is (almost) entirely a silent movie. The Artist plays homage to the era of silent film with a loving dedication that makes the film incredibly nostalgic for the films of one hundred years ago.
In a narrative that essentially feels like A Star Is Born but with a Hollywood backdrop, Jean Dujardin stars as a popular silent movie sensation who forms a relationship with a young dancer as her star begins to rise while his starts to fade.
The Artist is attempting to reminisce the silent era rather than actually do anything new and exciting which works well enough for what it is but fails to be ground breaking. Still, it does succeed in engaging a new generation in a form of cinema that has been left behind and it feels like a suitable nod of acknowledgement for all the films that paved the way for the cinema we are now used to experiencing.