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Empire Magazine Greatest Movies List - #347: All About Eve

If you make a movie that offers relevant and smart comments about celebrity culture then you are a good filmmaker. If your movie was made 64 years ago and it is still relevant today, then you are some kind of genius. Joseph L. Mankiewicz was definitely on to something when he wrote and directed All About Eve because even though it was released in1950 and deals with a fading theatre actress and an obsessive fan who may or may not be after her career, it may as well be about Hollywood today. Lately I have realized that if I was to watch one film a week off Empire Magazine’s list of the 500 greatest movies of all time it might take me decades to get through the list. A lot of these movies are hard to find, however since I signed up on Netflix I now have access to quite a few of them. I would prefer it if watching them for the first them was more of an event, such as seeing them at a festival or something like that but you can’t force a moment. So for the next couple of weeks, inst...