An Alan Smithee Film - Burn Hollywood Burn

An Alan Smithee Film - Burn Hollywood Burn
	Director Country of origin Year of production Length	'Alan Smithee' United States 1998 86 min
	'Alan Smithee' is the Director's Guild of America's official pseudonym credited to a film when a director believes that it is too incompetent or compromised to put on his/her resume. The premise of this mock-documentary is that a director whose 'real' name is Alan Smithee would be left with no option but to destroy the master negative of the film itself. The text is comprised largely of a series of interviews, and attempts to construct a (heavy-handed) satire of Hollywood. (N.B. Ironically, the film is credited to Alan Smithee because the actual director, Arthur Hiller, has disavowed it.)

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