Nickelodeon

With Nickelodeon, director Peter Bogdanovich finally achieved his dream of erasing the thin line between reel and real life, and he did it in a movie about people making movies, meticulously styled like a silent movie from the era it depicts.

Based on anecdotes Bogdanovitch gleaned from his interviews with John Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Allan Dwan, and other directors.