Film Language Tag: mise-en-abime (narration)
A reflexive strategy where the content of a medium is the medium itself: for example, Shakespeare’s Hamlet features a play within a play and Fellini’s 8½ (1963) is a film within a film.
Balkan Hospitality , Ulysses' Gaze
A (Harvey Keitel) and his friend Nikos (Giorgos Mihalakopoulos) meet with the man formerly in charge of the Belgrade Film Archive (Ljuba Tadic).
Closing Sequence, The Red Shoes
Vicki (Moira Shearer) must choose between dancing for Boris (Anton Walbrook) or her love for Julian (Marius Goring).
Hallucinogenic Contamination, The Congress
As Robin (Robin Wright) hallucinates her execution at the hands of Miramount Studios executive Jeff Green (Danny Huston), doctors work to freeze her in real time.
Manray's Execution, Bamboozled
After Manray tap dances for his life he is shot to death by the Mau Maus.
The Ballet of the Red Shoes, The Red Shoes
Vicki (Moira Shearer) performs as the lead in The Ballet of the Red Shoes with Ivan (Robert Helpmann) as her costar.
The Ballet of the Red Shoes (cont.), The Red Shoes
Vicky (Moira Shearer) and Ivan (Robert Helpmann) continue to dance the Ballet of the Red Shoes.
The Best Acting I've Ever Seen in My Whole Life, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) films a scene with Wayne Maunder (Luke Perry) and Trudi Frazer (Julia Butters).
