Which one? I've mastered three

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Hugo (2011) is not the best movie I have ever seen about movies, but it may be the most loving. There are almost no villains in it, except maybe Time, which is also a magician. Everyone in it turns out to be real.

(Almost everything in it is real. Hugo is invented; the automaton he discovers is not.)

Today was better than yesterday.

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More loving than Day for Night? Wow!

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More loving than Day for Night? Wow!

I haven't seen Day for Night! Tell me about it.

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Original title La Nuit américaine: François Truffaut's love letter to the movies, from the point of view of the people who make them.

It's an ensemble piece about the making of a film - it doesn't look like a very good film, but that may not be intentional - with Truffaut playing the part of the director (more than a touch of self portrait here). It is one of my top ten films.

And it also contains one genuine oddity, a tiny cameo from Graham Greene as an insurance assessor.

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And it also contains one genuine oddity, a tiny cameo from Graham Greene as an insurance assessor.

That's wonderful.

You've seen The Stunt Man (1980), yes?